Today, with the approval of the Holy Fibber, Francis, the so-called Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published Dignitas Infinita, the “Declaration on Human Dignity.”
At over 15,000 words, one must think seriously before dedicating the time and energy necessary to read, much less evaluate, the Declaration in its fullness. I have yet to do so, in fact, I plainly admit that I may never make that investment.
Even so, I have read enough of the text to conclude that neither its teaching nor its authors are even remotely Catholic. For that reason alone, the text has value, namely, as yet another piece of irrefutable evidence that the conciliar church – the globalist operation presently in occupation of the Vatican – is a counterfeit.
Here I will provide some details that, although rather brief, tell the tale.
First of all, the name of the document alone is revealing, Dignitas Infinita, or Infinite Dignity.
Article 1 elaborates on the theme, stating:
Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and beyond every circumstance, state, or situation the person may ever encounter.
If indeed human dignity is infinite, then nothing can be added to, or subtracted from, it. The Catholic, however, should recognize that this notion simply cannot be true insofar as it would render the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Our Lord irrelevant.
At this, let’s get straight to the point: Baptism. When read through this lens, the Declaration is immediately revealed as utterly irreconcilable with the true Faith.
As St. Paul wrote to the Romans:
For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life … For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba, Father. (Romans 6:4, 8:15)
The 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia explains:
Baptism is, therefore, the sacrament by which we are born again of water and the Holy Ghost, that is, by which we receive in a new and spiritual life, the dignity of adoption as sons of God and heirs of God‘s kingdom.
This being so, Pope Pius XII exhorts:
Let the faithful, therefore, consider to what a high dignity they are raised by the sacrament of baptism. (Mediator Dei 104)
In summary: Baptism has the effect of raising human dignity, elevating man from bondage to sonship via filial adoption, to the status of an heir to the Kingdom of God.
Already it is clear from Article 1 of Dignitas Infinita that conciliar Rome does not hold this most basic tenet of the Christian faith. Rather, it maintains that human dignity is infinite right out of the gate.
Before resting our case, however, we must bear in mind who we’re dealing with here, namely, the Master Deceiver and his minions. As such, there are portions of the text that might confuse the naïve. So, let’s take a closer look.
For instance, there is a paragraph in Dignitas Infinita under the misleading heading: “Christ Elevates Human Dignity.”
Indeed, He does elevate human dignity, but don’t be fooled. What follows strips the heading of all Catholic meaning. It reads:
…the dignity of the human person was revealed in its fullness when the Father sent his Son, who assumed human existence to the full: “In the mystery of the Incarnation, the Son of God confirmed the dignity of the body and soul which constitute the human being.” By uniting himself with every human being through his Incarnation, Jesus Christ confirmed that each person possesses an immeasurable dignity simply by belonging to the human community; moreover, he affirmed that this dignity can never be lost. (Art. 19)
You see what they did there? The Catholic Church does indeed professes that configuration to Christ via the Sacrament of Baptism, whereby one dies with Christ and rises with Him to new life, elevates human dignity; that is to say, Baptism increases human dignity from that of a slave to that of a son, a bondman to an heir.
Dignitas Infinita, however, is suggesting that Christ, by His incarnation alone (apart from Baptism), merely reveals man’s dignity “in its fullness” to man himself. It is in this sense – not the Catholic sense – that the heretic authors of the text are asserting that “Christ elevates human dignity,” with “elevate” simply meaning that He holds it up for all to see, as if Our Lord came to say, Hey guys, look at just how dignified you are!
To give credit where credit is due, the Council instigated this dreadful error when it stated:
Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear (Gaudium et Spes 22).
No, Christ does not reveal man to man himself, He reveals God!
He who has seen me has seen the Father. – John 14:9
As for the notion that each person possesses an immeasurable dignity that can never be lost, and this simply by being human, Aquinas teaches:
By sinning man departs from the order of reason, and consequently falls away from human dignity, insofar as he is naturally free, and exists for himself, and he falls into the slavish state of the beasts. (ST II-II, Q.64, A2)
Clearly, human dignity exists in greater and lesser degree among individual persons, i.e., it is not infinite and unvarying. For example, even a child can understand that the dignity possessed by the Blessed Virgin far exceeds that of Barabbas, or me, or you.
Dignitas Infinita mentions Baptism a grand total of one time, despite the fact that it is central to a Catholic understanding of human dignity. To find it, one must search the footnotes and – to no one’s surprise – its meaning is convoluted. The footnote is added in reference to the following:
…the Church believes and affirms that all human beings—created in the image and likeness of God and recreated [34] in the Son, who became man, was crucified, and rose again—are called to grow under the action of the Holy Spirit to reflect the glory of the Father in that same image and to share in eternal life.
This is flat out incorrect. All human beings have not been recreated in the son, that can only be said of the baptized.
Footnote 34 makes a feeble attempt to inject a quasi-Catholic spin on the subject. It reads:
Indeed, Christ has given the baptized a new dignity, that of being “sons of God.”
While the popesplainers may point to this as an example of the Catholic faith, this is hardly the case.
In order to defend the notion that Baptism gives man a “new dignity,” it must be acknowledged that what makes it new is that it is Baptism through which “man reaches the divine life of grace as he is born in the Church” (cf Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri), whereby his dignity increases exponentially.
Does Jorge & Co. believe this? Of course not, and neither did their conciliar predecessors.
In conclusion, Dignitas Infinita is just the latest manifestation of Modernist Rome doing what it does best, namely, celebrating the glories of humankind apart from God, as if the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross and His glorious Resurrection were all for naught.
The leaders of the conciliar counterfeit church all the way to the top, including its fake popes and bogus “saints,” have been making it perfectly plain for more than half-a-century now that neither they nor their earthbound religion are Catholic.
If, even now, this point is lost on you, I shudder to imagine what it’s going to take to open your eyes.
