Just to have things spelled out properly, I want to list separately the items from Lumen Gentium 25, as per Principle #5:
The mind and will of the Magisterium may be known in part from the character of the documents, that is, from the genre of the document.
So for example an apostolic letter as such does not have the same weight as an encyclical, and neither have the same weight as a dogmatic decree from an ecumenical council, and so on. To this principle is opposed the habit of treating magisterial documents as if they were Scripture, with every line equally authoritative.
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