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\"\"And on the tragic loss of that dignity. A reflection on the Vatican document <\/i>Dignitas infinita, issued in Rome on<\/em> <\/span>April 2, 2024 (19th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II\u2019s death), and presented to the press on April 8 in Rome <\/i><\/h4>\n

Monday, April 22, 2024, Rome<\/i><\/b> \u2014 Many years ago, in the sum<\/span>mer of 2001, in a meeting in the Vatican Press Office, I asked Dr. <\/span>Joquin Navarro-Valls, a Spanish numerary of Opus Dei who since 1984 had been Pope John Paul II\u2019s spokesman, what was the <\/span>central question<\/span><\/i> of John Paul\u2019s pontificate…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the <\/span>anthropological question<\/span><\/i>,\u201d Dr. Navarro-Valls replied. \u201cThe question of man, of man\u2019s nature and dignity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Navarro-Valls was speaking in the context of a discussion of <\/span>John Paul\u2019s years of effort to bring an end to the Soviet commu<\/span>nist system, which had proposed an idea of man as <\/span>Homo Sovieticus<\/span><\/i>, \u201cSoviet man\u201d \u2014 a man who, without any reference to God, lived to implement the goals of the Party, not to fulfill any personal goal. Navarro-Valls was speaking also in the context of our Western society which, even in 2001, was already proposing an ideal of \u201cindividual freedom\u201d \u2014 that each person has an inalienable right to seek that wealth and happiness he or she desires. A <\/span>\u201cfree society\u201d of \u201cfree individuals\u201d \u2014 but precisely for that rea<\/span>son, a society that might descend to excess: to selfishness, even to the embrace, as John Paul increasingly warned, of a \u201cculture of death\u201d \u2014 a culture which commits injustices against human dignity from abortion to euthanasia, ignoring the dignity of other, usually weak and vulnerable, humans. So evil brings sorrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

John Paul II spent his pontificate thinking and preaching about these differing visions of what man is, of what is the source of <\/span>man\u2019s dignity. In the end, he put Christ at the center of his <\/span>thought: Christ, and His love for us, displayed in His sacrificial death on the cross (making the cross not a symbol of criminal death but of sacrificial, pure love), revealing to us the \u201cinfinite dignity\u201d of each person, because so profoundly loved. <\/span>The love of Christ for each of us<\/span><\/i> is the source which gives each of us \u201cinfinite dignity,\u201d John Paul II taught (<\/span>see below<\/span><\/i>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward 23 years… to a packed Vatican Press Conference <\/span>on April 8, 2024, two weeks ago. That day, Cardinal Victor Fer<\/span>nandez, head since last July 1 of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presented <\/span>Dignitas infinita<\/span><\/i> (\u201cInfinite dignity\u201d).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning of his presentation, Fernandez: 1) defended his controversial December 18 document <\/span>Fiducia supplicans<\/span><\/i> (which permitted blessings of homosexual couples and couples in irregular relationships), saying it had met with resistance around the world, but had not changed any teaching of the Church, only developed the teaching on blessings (this led one Swiss journalist, Giuseppe Rusconi, to raise his hand and say the press conference seemed \u201cstrange\u201d to him, as if its true purpose was not to present <\/span>Dignitas infinita<\/span><\/i>, but to defend <\/span>Fiducia supplicans<\/span><\/i>; and so it seemed also to many); and 2) explained that <\/span>Dignitas infinita<\/span><\/i> was in the planning for <\/span>five years<\/i><\/b>, since 2019, and that its intent was \u201cthe drafting of a text highlighting the indispensable nature of the dignity of the human person in Christian anthropology.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernandez noted, significantly, that \u201can initial draft of the text <\/span>was prepared with the help of some experts in 2019 but a <\/span>Consulta Ristretta<\/span><\/i> of the Congregation, convened on October 8 of the <\/span>same year, found it to be unsatisfactory.\u201d So we know the first draft of this text was found by the Vatican itself in 2019 \u201cunsatisfactory.\u201d Fernandez then described \u201cthe five-year course of the text\u2019s preparation\u201d as it sought to clarify \u201cthe gravity and central<\/span>ity of the <\/span>theme of dignity<\/span><\/i> in Christian thought.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, in the end, what is the basis of \u201chuman dignity\u201d? And if <\/span>that dignity is indeed \u201cinfinite,\u201d why is it \u201cinfinite\u201d?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernandez tells us: \u201cThis dignity of every human being can be understood as \u2018infinite\u2019 (<\/span>dignitas infinita<\/span><\/i>), as Pope St. John Paul II affirmed in a meeting for people living with various limitations or disabilities.\u201d [<\/span>This refers to an Angelus prayer Pope John Paul II prayed in the Cathedral of Osnabr\u00fcck, Germany, on November 16, 1980.<\/span><\/i>] Fernandez continued: \u201cHe [Pope John Paul II] said this <\/span>to show how human dignity transcends all outward appearances and specific aspects of people\u2019s lives.\u201d [emphasis added]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernandez is asserting: 1) that the title of this Declaration is from Pope John Paul II in 1980, meaning, the title draws on the authority of St. Pope John Paul II himself; and 2) that the word <\/span>\u201cinfinite\u201d means \u201ctranscending all outward appearances and specific aspects of people\u2019s lives.\u201d (Meaning that, whatever condi<\/span>tion of outward oppression or inward sin one may fall into, one\u2019s dignity remains \u201cinfinite.\u201d)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And Fernandez added: \u201cIn<\/span> Fratelli Tutti<\/span><\/i> [October 3, 2020] Pope Francis wanted to underscore that this (human) dignity <\/span>exists \u2018beyond all circumstances.\u2019 With this, he summoned all <\/span>people to defend human dignity in every cultural context and every moment of human existence, regardless of physical, psychological, social, or <\/span>even moral<\/span><\/i> [emphasis added] deficiencies.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So what Pope Francis has written on the \u201cinfinite\u201d character of <\/span>human dignity \u201cbeyond all circumstances\u201d is clear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But what did Pope John Paul II actually say on this point in 1980? So far as I know, no one has gone back to look at John Paul\u2019s entire 1980 address. And a close reading of that address reveals that what he said was different from what Fernandez has told us that he said. In 1980, speaking to people with physical handicaps, John Paul II said: \u201cTo gether with all of you, we will soon praise God and thank Him for the great gift of His love. <\/span>This love<\/span><\/i> is <\/span>the foundation of your hope<\/span><\/i> and your courage to live. God has shown us with Jesus Christ in an unsurpassable way how <\/span>He loves each man<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>thereby gives him infinite dignity<\/span><\/i> [Note: This is the precise phrase which provided the title of the new Declaration]… For us Christians it matters little whether someone is sick or healthy; what ultimately matters is this: Are you ready to realize with conscience and faith the dignity conferred by God <\/span>in all your life situations<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>in your behavior as a true Christian<\/span><\/i>, or <\/span>do you want to lose this dignity of yours in a superficial and irresponsible life, in sin and guilt before God?<\/span><\/i>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For Pope John Paul, yes, God\u2019s love does grant to all men an <\/span>\u201cinfinite dignity.\u201d This is true. But John Paul II taught that this <\/span>dignity can be lost, if one lives \u201ca superficial and irresponsible life, in sin and guilt before God.\u201d Thus, we must turn from sin, to recover a dignity we may lose through our own fault. Fernandez\u2019s <\/span>selective interpretation of John Paul II\u2019s words obscures the \u201chard <\/span>truth\u201d of the need to maintain our \u201cinfinite dignity\u201d through our actions. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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