On Dec. 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, known by its Latin incipit (opening words) as Dignitatis Humanae. The Council thereby ...

Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, can help address a “global crisis” in religious freedom, enabling Muslims and the West to confront and better respond ...

The Declaration on Religious Freedom, which was approved in the last phase of Vatican II, is one of the most discussed documents and certainly the most innovative of the Council. The State must give ...

On Dec. 7 we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of the “Declaration on Religious Liberty” (known also by the opening words of the Latin text, Dignitatis Humanae). No other decree of ...

Benedict XVI drew attention to the 40th anniversary of the declaration Dignitatis Humanae, which upholds freedom of worship as an individual and collective right. He also recalled the dignity of ...

The Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), also known as the Institute for Human Dignity and L’Istituto Dignitatis Humanae, is a Catholic-inspired NGO based in Rome. Its mission is to "protect and ...

Samuel Johnson commented famously that the significance of a dog walking on its hind legs was not that it was done well but that it was done at all. As we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican ...

The religious freedom campaign of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops took on a new urgency, wrapped in ominous tones and a foreboding script, in a newly released video. The nine-and-a-half minute ...

Conscience and Catholic Education: Theology, Administration, and Teaching brings together essays that focus broadly on issues of conscience encountered in the educational field. The essays are uneven ...

Dec. 7 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal documents in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history: Dignitatis Humanae, or “On the Dignity of the Human Person.” Issued at the close of ...