We believe that we all are created in the image and likeness of God. Because of this fact, every single human life is sacred. There is nothing that anyone can do to take this dignity away. All of our Catholic Social Teaching flows from this principle. People are more important than things. All institutions are judged by how they protect or how they violate the dignity of the human person.
All offenses against life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and willful suicide; all violations of the integrity of the human person...all offenses against human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children, degrading working conditions where men are treated as mere tools for profit rather than free and responsible persons: all these and the like are criminal: they poison civilization...and militate against the honor of the Creator. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, no. 27
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground." God created man in his image; in the divine image He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:26-27
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