This [Universal Declaration of Human Dignity] is a kind of mature fruit of Vatican II, re-read and re-actualized through the great pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. We should see this Declaration, and the Institute, as a tool in the resurrection of Christianity in our time, part of the New Evangelization

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The timing for creating the Institute for Human Dignity could not be better: it’s a providential moment. When you look at the threats to human life from fertilization to natural death, but also the whole spectrum of life; when you look at the persecution for religious or political beliefs; when you look at the undermining of human dignity in areas of conflict; when you look at areas like the sales of arms into zones of conflict, or you look at the promotion of drugs, both legal and illegal, trying to give some people some kind of escapism from the world in which they live, then people are losing their dignity Lord Alton of Liverpool