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At Rome bioethics summit, Pope Leo calls scientists to defend human dignity
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in St. Peter's Basilica, May 31, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 17:58 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has praised an international bioethics summit in Rome for advancing an “authentically human” approach to science, urging researchers to pursue truth grounded in the dignity of the human person.In a message delivered by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the pope expressed hi…
Why Pope Leo Says Science Must Serve Humanity
Daniel Ibáñez Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in St. Peter's Basilica, May 31, 2025. Pope Leo XIV, in a message to participants of an international bioethics conference, issued a call for scientists to ‘contribute to the search for truth, so that science may remain at the service of humanity, never becoming its master.’
In contemporary religions — especially the monotheists who were still living — the concept of “life” was always focused on the human species as the maximum expression of virtues and reflection of divine. In Judaism, we are created by t’tzelem Elohim — in the image of God. In Christianity, this image and similarity is also the foundation of human dignity. In Islam, human being is the caliph, the guardian of God’s creation and mirror. In Hinduism,…
The Pope asked that research and its application serve truth and the common good, and that bioethical sciences respect human integrity.
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