New book of CBCI explains Church’s concept of human dignity

Feb.12, 2014:Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the president of Catholic Bishops Conference of India ,CBCI, has released a book that explains the Catholic Church’s social teachings on human dignity. The book Titled “Human Dignity in Catholic Social Thought” was released on Saturday. It is edited by Fr. Charles Irudayam, Secretary of the CBCI Office for Justice, Peace and Development.
The book released during the CBCI plenary assembly, in Palai in southern India’s Kerala State, explains the Church’s teachings on human dignity.It also highlights the patristic teaching on human dignity, besides broadly discussing the concept in the teachings of different popes beginning with Pope Leo XIII till the present Pope Francis.
The first copies of the book were handed to Bishop Soosai Manickam of Sivagangai diocese and to Bishop Gerald Almeida, an Episcopal member of the CBCI Office for Justice, Peace and Development. The Bangalore-based Asian Trading Corporation is the publisher of the book.
Source:Ucan