In Churchtalk it means a type of question that can be answered “Yes” or “No” to remove all ambiguities or “doubts” (dubia) about a teaching. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith usually answers these. The fact that Pope Francis has neither answered nor permitted the CDF to give an official answer, is really dereliction of duty on his part. Answering doctrinal questions is his JOB.
Like most liberals, the man is an ego maniac with an inferiority complex.
Below is dubium #5, as an example of the confusion. It’s obviously not a yes or no question, but a sort of trick question. If the answer is yes, the pope is wrong, and if it’s no, St. John Paul is wrong.
Obviously these are not good faith questions! Yet they do force rightful attention on the conflicts posed by Amoris, which some say does warrant clarification from CDF, although not in the dubium format.
“After Amoris Laetitia (303) does one still need to regard as valid the teaching of St. John Paul IIs encyclical Veritatis Splendor, 56, based on sacred Scripture and on the Tradition of the Church, that excludes a creative interpretation of the role of conscience and that emphasizes that conscience can never be authorized to legitimate exceptions to absolute moral norms that prohibit intrinsically evil acts by virtue of their object?”