Subramaniam Vincent is director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. While it may be fashionable to say that dignity as ...

The Vatican is drawing scrutiny for a newly released document that lays out what it calls threats to human dignity. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: That list includes war, poverty, abortion and the suffering of ...

Dignitas Infinita, the new declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), affirms that “every human person possesses an infinite dignity” and enumerates assaults on that dignity, ...

The Vatican declaration on the infinite dignity of the human person released on April 8 affirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations adopted in 1948. It seems to be the ...

This month, we mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). History may not exactly repeat itself, but it does have an odd tendency to create striking ...

The Vatican has released a document criticizing gender theory, transgender surgery and surrogacy as affronts to human dignity. Dignitas Infinita, Latin for "Infinite Dignity," was released on Monday ...

Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death penalty, gender transition surgery, war, sexual abuse and human trafficking, the Dicastery for the ...

This Ethics Spotlight explores the impact AI is having on human dignity, part of the Markkula Center’s work in the international project New Humanism in the time of Neurosciences and Artificial ...

The statement is likely to be embraced by conservatives and stir consternation among L.G.B.T.Q. advocates who fear it will be used as a cudgel against transgender people. By Jason Horowitz and ...

With Leo XIV newly elected as pope, all eyes are on how he will both align with and differ from the late Pope Francis. Known as a “pope among the people,” Pope Francis was an advocate—for the poor, ...