CDF and Lefebvre Pars III (Religious Liberty and the Unity of the True Religion)

Introduction
Pars I
Pars II

2. Religious Liberty and the Unity of the True Religion.

The elements expounded in section 1 clarify in large measure the problem presented in section 2. For this reason our project here will be more brief and content with completing certain aspects what have already been mentioned.

The doctrine on religious liberty, contained in DH, absolutely does not include a relativist conception about truth, nor a negation of the fact that the Catholic religion is the unique true religion. The dubia on this subject were formulated so as to propose certain affirmations about DH, in particular, on sections 3, 4 and 6:

Side note concerning the Dubia of Marciel Lefebvre

For those who want not only to read the response, but also to review the original dubia, Angeleus Press published them in 2001 under the title Religious Liberty Questioned.

A copy may be ordered from Amazon or any number of other sites.

If there is a public domain source for them in English, or even in French or Latin I would gladly post them if it should be made available to me.

CDF and Lefebvre pars II (Religious Liberty and Human Dignity)

Introduction
Pars I

III. RESPONSE TO FUNDAMENTAL POINTS

1. Religious liberty and human dignity according to the Declaration Dignitatis humanæ (hereafter, DH):

           The right to religious liberty has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person as this dignity is known through the revealed word of God and by reason itself. (DH, 2/a).

Therefore the right to religious freedom has its foundation not in the subjective disposition of the person, but in his very nature. (DH, 2/b).

Would, therefore, the conciliar doctrine, according to which the foundation of the right to religious liberty is located in the objective dignity of the person, based, in turn, on human nature, be incompatible with the traditional Catholic doctrine, such as what is expressed for example in the affirmation given by Leo XIII?

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Response to the dubia presented by His Excellency Archbishop Lefebvre- Pars I

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Response to the dubia presented by His Excellency Archbishop Lefebvre

At the request of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, I have studied with care the large dossier prepared by His Excellency Msgr. Lefebrve, in which a certain number of dubia are presented on the possibility of reconciling Vatican II's doctrine on religious liberty and the prior magisterium.

Already in the different stages of the preparation of the Declaration Dignitatis humanæ, this question was very present and the definitive text of the Declaration itself, within its preamble, explicitly affirms that “the Council of the Vatican searches the sacred tradition and holy doctrine of the Church from whence it draws from the new in constant accord with the old” (DH no. 1). Likewise, afterwards, many theological studies, in commenting on the conciliar Declaration, tried to show how the indisputable newness which this document represents was in continuity and harmony with the prior magisterium.¹

However, in order to respond to the question posed by Msgr. Lefebvre, it is not sufficient to publish from what is already handed down in the existing bibliography, and it was judged necessary to conduct a more detailed study, the result of which will be presented in the following pages.

I. PRESENTATION OF THE “DUBIA”OF MSGR. LEFEBVRE.