So, basically what Tucho Fernandez and Francis are saying are that people are essentially not creatures of God but rather they are gods in themselves.Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienable grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and beyond every circumstance, state, or situation the person may ever encounter.
They're saying in contradiction to Jesus, to the Apostles, to Sacred Tradition and to numerous teachings of Doctors of the Church, theologians, etc, that sin does nothing to injure or destroy human dignity, because that which is infinite by definition cannot have an end or a beginning, it always is. They're essentially saying that the doctrine of Original Sin is a myth, since Adam and Eve are also human persons, thus with "infinite dignity," so their disobedience against God supposedly had no actual effect on them. (Which seems to me to be e a derivative of the conception of human anthropology that says that humans are essentially primordial gods in themselves who were stolen from a primordial paradise and imprisoned by the Demiurge in physical bodies and thus that the what you do in your body has no effect on your soul. This is definitely a Gnostic belief).
Thus by this document they are saying that humanity didn't need a Savior, since nothing had supposedly been actually lost in Adam and Eve's sin, there was really no point to Christ's afflictions and Redemptive Sacrifice to win Atonement for all Men. (Hence their emphasis on "Christ" as the social organizer/reformer and activist for equity at expense of most other aspects).
I'm not the only one who immediately picked up on this either.
From Ed Feser on "X":
Today there was an eclipse. I’m speaking, of course, of man’s eclipse of God, which was visible, if you could bear to let yourself look at it, in the first line of the new DDF document: “Every human person possesses an infinite dignity.”
No, as the Catholic faith has always taught, only a single human person possesses that – Christ, and only because He is God, not because He is human. God alone has infinite dignity.
This expression of excessive human self-regard is scandalous, but, sad to say, not unprecedented in this pontificate. In Evangelii Gaudium, in 2013, Pope Francis said:
“The first and the greatest of the commandments, and the one that best identifies us as Christ’s disciples [is]: ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you’”
What Christ Himself actually said about which commandment is first and greatest is, of course:
“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment” (Matthew 22:37-38)
You don’t need a course in logic, but just a minimally functioning intellect, to see the direct contradiction between these statements. They can’t possibly both be right.
And, needless to say, they have radically different implications. The new DDF document’s extreme statement on the death penalty, which also contradicts scripture (along with every previous pope who has spoken on the subject), is an example.
Where you choose to start – with God or with man – is going to determine where you end up.
