Imago Dei, Volume 3, Issue 4

Following the success of last year's conference, held within the Vatican, we expect this year's conference to be heavily oversubscribed.  To avoid dissapointment please register your interest now here 

All further details will be sent following registration.

Writing in his capacity of the DHI's President of the Advisory Board, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke praised Pope Francis' defence of the inviolable dignity of innocent human life and his ability to connect with populations across the globe. 

In praising Pope Francis' leadership for the new evangelisation, Cardinal Burke writes:   

"The Pontificate of Pope Francis should therefore be seen as a radical call to redouble our efforts for the new evangelization. Radical in the sense that, in our dialogue with others and with the world, we must start with the beginning, Christ's call to life in Him. This call of Christ is the good news of God's love and mercy which our world so badly longs for."

With the 500 million people of the European Union set to vote in Parliamentary elections next month, our partner, the Novae Terrae Foundation, has proposed a pledge for MEP candidates to sign, declaring their commitment to defending and promoting human dignity, as well as the human right to life, the promotion of family, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, social justice as well as the right of parents to educate their children.

To adopt this pledge, as promoter or subscriber, please write to contact@novaeterrae.eu - further details can be found here

The DHI is delighted to co-sponsor the Acton Institute's Rome Conference: "Faith, State and the Economy: Perspectives from East and West."  Speakers to explore the complex relationship between religious liberty and economic freedom include: Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kuin, Archbishop Maroun Lahham, Rev. Professor Martin Rhonheimer and Dr Samuel Gregg.

Registration opens at 3pm with the conference beginning at 4pm, with a reception to follow.

Venue: Piazza della Pilotta, 4, 00187, Rome, Italy

To register now, please click here

Last month the DHI reported on the news from England that NHS hospitals were using the remains of aborted and miscarried babies as furnace fodder for the incinerator in a 'waste-to-energy' scheme. 

Recent Press Releases

Cardinal Martino congratulates the Syriac Orthodox Church on the election of its new Patriarch

DHI 

HE Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino

Honorary President

Patrons

HRH Prince Charles of Bourbon 

Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro

Rocco Buttiglione MP

HMEH Prince and Grand Master 

Fra' Matthew Festing

Field Marshal The Lord Guthrie 

GCB LVO OBE 

HI&RH Otto von Habsburg 

Prof. Nasser D Khalili PhD 

KCSS KCFO

Prof. Hans-Gert Pöttering MEP

HE Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke

President, Advisory Board

Advisory Board

H.E. Cardinal Francis Arinze

H.E. Cardinal Walter Brandmüller

H.E. Cardinal Francesco Monterisi

H.E. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

H.E. Cardinal Edwin O'Brien

H.E. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith

H.E. Cardinal Robert Sarah

H.E. Cardinal Angelo Scola

H.E. Cardinal Elio Sgreccia

H.E. Cardinal Peter Turkson

H.E. Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun

Luca Volontè

Chairman

Fr. Michael Seed, SA, PhD, STD

Chaplain

Fellows

Yoyo Allalouf

H.E. Anthony Bailey OBE 

GCSS KC*HS

John Hughes

John Kennedy CBE KSG 

KCHS KMCO DL

JP Loveland

Dean Slover KSS

International Committee on 

Human Dignity

Nirj Deva DL MEP 

(European Parliament)

President

Ingrid Grosu

Secretary-General 

Members (in chronological order)

Dr. Mantas Adomenas MP 

(Lithuanian Parliament)

Mircea Lubanovici MP 

(Romanian Parliament)

Lord Alton of Liverpool 

(British Parliament)

Endre Spaller MP 

(Hungarian Parliament)

Dott. Antonio Maria Sacco

Sub-Committee: Human Dignity 

and Bioethics

Prof. Patrick Barron

Sub-Committee: Human Dignity 

in the Economic Sphere

Elia Essa Kas Hanna

Sub-Committee: Human Dignity 

and Religious Freedom

Tudor Drambarean

Sub-Committee: Human Dignity 

and the Traditional Family

Theresa Creel

Director of Operations

Leo van Doesburg

Director of Parliamentary Relations

Daniel Howard

Director of External Affairs

Dr. Radu Motoca PhD

Director of Research

Christian Sweeting KCSG

Vice Chairman

Communications Department

O'Niel Minto

Webmaster                     Andrea Sicari

Web Support                    Ena Granulo

Research Secretariat

Daniel Towne

Jonathan de Leyser

Susanna Nordlinder 

Stephanie Zawada 

Consultants

Eunice Dugulescu Vatran

Stephen Jones

Kalman C. Sporn 

(Advisor, Middle East Policy) 

Benjamin Harnwell 

Founder & President of the Board of Trustees

Reflection

"The Institute promotes recognition of the infinite value of every single person by recognising each human life as being made in the Image and Likeness of God, from conception until natural death. The Imago Dei is the source of the sanctity of human life. Promoting Human Dignity protects this sanctity in the political sphere, as the Christian Faith upholds it in the cultural sphere. The Institute exists to draw these themes together." 

Benjamin Harnwell

 
Founder, Dignitatis Humanae Institute

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