The role of conscience in Christian moral thinking has always been central. But to say this does not mean that the role of conscience has not been obscured at certain moments of history when there has been the temptation to make of the Church a merely authoritarian structure. Therefore I like what Msgr. Scicluna said about a hermeneutics in continuity (which is an improvement over "hermeneutics of continuity" which can be understood in a merely ideological sense which denies the sins of the Church.) This is why I would bet that almost all those behind the Dubia and the Filial Correction are people who have never accepted or fully taken into account the teaching of  Dignitatis Humanae (Vatican II on religious liberty). DH affirms the central role of conscience in religion. AL affirms the central role of conscience in the healing of marriage and family in the present daty world.