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Pope at Audience: Human Dignity Must Always Be Defended as God’s Gift

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At his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his reflection on Vatican II’s ‘Gaudium et Spes,’ and says the dignity of every human person is a permanent gift of God’s love that we must defend. Read all  

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Vatican City, 9 Sep (EFE).- Pope Leo XIV claimed on Wednesday the dignity of every person as a gift that does not depend on his abilities, wealth or decisions, and called for it to be promoted and defended against the «falsifications and manipulations» that still disfigure it. «The three most significant expressions of the dignity of [...] The entry Leo XIV defends dignity against his «falsifications and manipulations» was first published in Hol…

For Pope Leo XIV, the dignity of man does not depend either on achievement or on wealth. In his general audience, he explains what they justify instead. Afterwards, it becomes musically with a greeting to Würzburg.

Leo XIV spoke in his catechesis during the general audience about the fact that human dignity is the basis and condition of all other values, stems from the very existence of the person and is expressed in his reason, conscience and freedom.

Human dignity is an inalienable gift from God and does not depend on one's abilities, wealth, social position, or the choices made, the Holy Father recalled during today's general audience. In his catechesis, referring to the Second Vatican Council's constitution Gaudium et spes and his encyclical Magnifica humanitas, the Pope emphasized that defending human dignity requires solidarity and opposing its distortions. Brothers and Sisters, Article …

Leo XIV dedicated this Wednesday's general audience, held in St. Peter's Square, to deepening the dignity of the human person from the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes of the Second Vatican Council. In the framework of his cycle of catechesis on the conciliar documents, the Pope recalled that the dignity of the human person has its origin in God and does not depend on his abilities, wealth, social position or decisions."Each person is thoug…

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Religión Digital broke the news on Wednesday, September 9, 2026.
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