A Successor for the St. Gallen Mafia?
Their positions sound eerily alike, as if Fernández is making Martini’s priorities for the Church come alive.


Above: Cardinal Martini, architect of the St. Gallen Mafia. On April 8, 2024, Cardinal Victor Manuel “Tucho” Fernández sat for a press conference about his new document Dignitas Infinita. He was the recently-appointed head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (D.D.F.)—entrusted by the pope with changing the office’s reputation for policing orthodoxy.