Comment: 2)
This "methodology" assumes, as Car.Ratzinger once articulated clearly that "the ordinary Catholic is a simple person...it is the role of the bishop to protect from the power of the intellectual".
It assumes that mankind is evil, stupid, chaotic, inevitably doomed without the order of dictate. Dictate, right or wrong, is ultimately, the absolute requirement for order in church, in society.
It is the exact opposite of subsidiarity. It is the nature, I suspect, of "ontological" distinction. 
Preaching "subsidiarity" at the micro level is a ruse, a minimal concession to satisfy the "quest" impulse of the captured. The "big picture" - which ultimately impinges to direct the "little" is the prerogative of an increasingly tighter ring of the "specially" endowed, unaccountable and "metaphysically" protected from incursion by the "simple people".
Putin's oligarchical system, Roman Catholic structure, Bannon/Trump and our SPXX, Opus Dei, and  irrational, rotist virulant trad "subserviants".