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#481 The Controversies Around Religious Freedom - Michael Lofton

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The Dignitatis Humane: A Change in Catholic Principles

In 2005 he gave this um speech to the College of Cardinals and it's called his Christmas address. He explains here's how we are to interpret all of Vatican, where he uses hermeneutic of continuity or reform. So your position that I'm gathering is that this the dignitatis umane does not represent a rupture, but it does represent a change in regard to what we're responding to different circumstances now. Spot on. That's exactly how Benedict himself, Pope Benedict the 16th, expressed that in 2005.

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