How Do You Solve A Problem Like Tucho?

The Advent season begins this Sunday, and that means The Sound of Music will soon be on television in the United States. The ABC network airs the film classic starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer each year before Christmas, a broadcasting tradition that began in 2002. (It would air before Easter when I was a child, which shows my age.)
As I considered the latest contretemps involving the prefect of the Dicastery of for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, a song from the film came to mind.
“How do you solve a problem like Maria?” sing the sisters of the convent in which the heroine of the story is an unlikely novice at the beginning of the picture.
Though they are reasonably unlikely to be breaking out in song anytime soon, Vatican types may be looking at Fernandez’s troubled tenure as DDF head and wondering: “How do you solve a problem like Fernández?”
A longtime friend of Pope Francis who often helped the late pontiff draft statements …