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Fr. Ripperger: approach to ecumenism and other religions in these documents is fundamentally different from the approach of the Vatican II document or Ut Unum Sint by Pope John Paul II. While the current Magisterium can change a teaching that falls under non-infallible ordinary magisterial teaching, nevertheless, when the Magisterium makes a judgment in these cases, it has an obligation due to the requirements of the moral virtue of prudence to show how the previous teaching was wrong or is now to be understood differently by discussing the two different teachings. However, this is not what has happened. The Magisterium since Vatican II often ignores previous documents which may appear to be in opposition to the current teaching

Conservative vs. Traditional Catholicism Latin Mass Magazine http://www.latinmassmagazine.com  › articles › articles_2... The approach to ecumenism and other religions in these  documents  is fundamentally different from the approach of the  Vatican II document  or Ut Unum Sint by Pope ...
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Feser: [Unless idolatrous] "human dignity" would be completely unproblematic. But in a context in which it is taken for granted that God and nature (in the classical sense of "nature") are irrelevant to ethics, that consent, freedom, etc. are the fundamental moral categories, etc., talk of "human dignity" has a tendency to be read in an idolatrous "Man is an end in himself" way.

https://www.whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2010/10/the_catastrophic_spider.htmlHi Lydia, I have no problem at all with the the phrase or concept "human dignity" as such, and I am happy to speak also of intrinsic or non-utilitarian value. Nor do I think one needs to use the A-T language in non-philosophical contexts. But I  don't  like the "ends in themselves" talk, for the reasons stated in the main post. And unfortunately, that's the kind of meaning that often gets attached to the idea of human dignity these days. In other words, in a context in which people reflexively thought of human beings in terms of their status as rational animals (where rationality is understood to be irreducible to some material attribute), their high "just below the angels" place in the natural order, as made in God's image, etc., the term "human dignity" would be completely unproblematic. But in a context in which it is taken for granted that God and nature (i...
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