When it comes to dignity, we often have an intuitive sense of what it means. It's about self-respect, boundaries, and carrying oneself with a certain grace, even when no one is watching. But what ...

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, ...

Oregon was the first state to allow its adult residents to voluntarily end their own lives, if they are terminally ill and mentally competent, by self-administering a lethal dose of an approved, ...

I have long argued that we want to create health so we can create opportunities for people to live, rather than the other way around. But this definition elides something important: I think our role ...

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 ...

Erick Ramirez is assistant professor of philosophy at Santa Clara University and faculty scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. The concept of human dignity—the idea ...

"My hope is that a more formal recognition of animal dignity would prohibit debasing objectification and reset our relations with other species." -Melanie Challenger People often say something like, ...

The congressman’s moral rhetoric doesn’t square with his cruel budget. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that ...

Dignity. We speak about it all the time. Demand it from the Government. Claim it for ourselves. Legislate it for the masses. We think we know what dignity means because we know how it feels to live ...