Opinion: 60 Years After the Council, Will Catholics Reject the Unholy Errors of Tucho’s Dignitas Infinita?

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By Robert Morrison, Remnant Columnist, The Remnant, April 9, 2024

This document is quite possibly the most wicked statement possible on human dignity.

On April 8, 2024, Cardinal Víctor Manuel “Tucho” Fernández and his Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released their Declaration on Human Dignity, Dignitas Infinita. Although Catholics celebrated the transferred Feast of the Annunciation on April 8th, we can draw a more apt comparison to Dignitas Infinita from the solar eclipse in America also taking place. Almost everyone witnessing the solar eclipse understood that the sun did not actually vanish even though it was temporarily blocked by the moon — but who will recall the Catholic teaching that has been eclipsed since Vatican II? Do we still recall enough about the actual Catholic teaching on human dignity to see the way in which Tucho’s Dignitas Infinita obscures it?

To properly assess Dignitas Inifnita, it is worthwhile to recall the battle that took place at Vatican II over the Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, upon which Tucho’s new declaration relies. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s July 8, 1987 letter to Cardinal Ratzinger identified the opposing sides of that battle and the consequences of the Liberal victory at the Council: …