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Offering a blueprint for the pro-life movement, prominent Catholics sign on to a letter that fleshes out the inherent dignity of human life.
A new document signed by prominent Catholic theologians and thought leaders titled “Life at the Center: A Pro-Life Statement” is included in the November issue of First Things and is currently available online.
Written within the context of a post-Roe world, the authors present “both new challenges and opportunities in the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.”
Written by Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White, university rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum; Jesuit Father Kevin Flannery, professor of philosophy emeritus at the Pontifical Gregorian University; O. Carter Snead, director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame; and Christopher Tollefsen, philosophy professor at the University of South Carolina, the statement first references Church teaching on the dignity of the human person:
“Basing her teaching upon Scripture and sacred tradition, the Catholic Church affirms in its Catechism that ‘the dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God.’ This image of God is present in every human being, and it is rooted in the whole person, body and soul. Concurrent with divine revelation, sound philosophical reasoning can ascertain that the human person is a rational animal, endowed with a biologically specific living body and a rational spiritual soul. Each person possesses intrinsic powers of intellectual knowledge, volitional love, and free choice, which typically manifest themselves gradually and develop throughout life. Human personhood does not depend on the development of these capacities but is rooted in our very nature, even from its beginning. Human beings who are unable to develop all the virtues of human flourishing due to disability, or other circumstances, always are and remain persons made in the image of God, equal and identical to others in their irreducible dignity.”
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A new document signed by prominent Catholic theologians and thought leaders titled “Life at the Center: A Pro-Life Statement” is included in the November issue of First Things and is currently available online.
Written within the context of a post-Roe world, the authors present “both new challenges and opportunities in the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.”
Written by Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White, university rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum; Jesuit Father Kevin Flannery, professor of philosophy emeritus at the Pontifical Gregorian University; O. Carter Snead, director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame; and Christopher Tollefsen, philosophy professor at the University of South Carolina, the statement first references Church teaching on the dignity of the human person:
“Basing her teaching upon Scripture and sacred tradition, the Catholic Church affirms in its Catechism that ‘the dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God.’ This image of God is present in every human being, and it is rooted in the whole person, body and soul. Concurrent with divine revelation, sound philosophical reasoning can ascertain that the human person is a rational animal, endowed with a biologically specific living body and a rational spiritual soul. Each person possesses intrinsic powers of intellectual knowledge, volitional love, and free choice, which typically manifest themselves gradually and develop throughout life. Human personhood does not depend on the development of these capacities but is rooted in our very nature, even from its beginning. Human beings who are unable to develop all the virtues of human flourishing due to disability, or other circumstances, always are and remain persons made in the image of God, equal and identical to others in their irreducible dignity.”
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‘Life at the Center’ Statement Reflects on Human Dignity in Post-Roe World
Offering a blueprint for the pro-life movement, prominent Catholics sign on to a letter that fleshes out the inherent dignity of human life.
