Can Dignitatis Humanae Be Defended? - Questions with Father #52

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🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On this episode of Questions with Father, we address one of the most contested documents of the Second Vatican Council: Dignitatis Humanae. Fr. Paul Robinson joins us to ask the hard question: can this declaration on religious liberty be reconciled with the traditional teaching of the Church? We will explore the Society of Saint Pius X's objections to this declaration, the pre-conciliar magisterium, and the post-conciliar attempts to reinterpret this controversial document. From Fr. Bernard Lucien’s modern defense to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s 1987 reply to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, this episode critically examines religious liberty, human dignity, and the nature of truth in public life. Abp. Lefebvre’s dubia on Religious Liberty: https://angeluspress.org/products/religious-liberty-questioned-dubia Reply of the CDF to the dubia of Abp. Lefebvre: https://laportelatine.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/reponses_dubia.pdf Abp. Lefebvre and the Vatican: https://angeluspress.org/products/lefebvre-vatican Catechism of the Crisis of the Church: https://angeluspress.org/products/catechism-crisis

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0:00.0	On this episode of Questions with Father, we address one of the most contested documents of the Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humane.
0:17.0	Father Paul Robinson joins us to ask the hard question. Can this declaration on religious liberty be reconciled with the traditional teaching of the church?
0:24.6	We will explore the Society of St. Pius X's objections to this declaration, the pre-concilior magistrate, and the post-concilior attempts to reinterpret this controversial document.
0:34.5	From Father Bernard Lucien's modern defense to Cardinal
0:38.0	Joseph Ratzinger's 1987 reply to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, this episode critically
0:43.4	examines religious liberty, human dignity, and the nature of truth in public life.
0:48.9	Like all our episodes, this is free to listen to, but please do consider a one-time or a small
0:53.1	monthly recurring donation, and please consider leaving a one time or a small monthly recurring donation,
0:59.1	and please consider leaving a rating and a review on the podcast to help others find these episodes and to discover the beauty and the truth of traditional Catholicism. So now let's join Father
1:04.1	Robinson for Freedom or Error, what the church taught before Vatican 2.
1:11.7	Father Robinson, great to have you back for an episode of questions with Father,
1:16.5	taking a little pause as we kind of calibrate and get our guests ready for the last few
1:22.1	episodes of the Catholic Mass series. So you wanted to come on and do an episode of questions
1:27.2	with Father about a 40-year-old
1:30.6	document of Vatican II, which sounds interesting and fascinating. But I got to ask a question,
1:38.5	why? Yeah, well, the document is Titati Samane, and actually, I think, was promulgated.
1:45.7	It was the last document of Vatican II was promulgated on December 7th, 1965.
1:51.0	Sorry, 60 years old.
1:52.2	Yes, 60 years old.
1:54.2	But recently, because of the fact that the Society of St. Piscesan, the claims of this document
1:59.2	contradicts the constant teaching of the church. And this is one, obviously one of our sort of flagship positions
2:07.8	that there are actual passages of Vatican II that contradict the constant teaching of the church.
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