According the Church, there is an awareness of the sublime dignity of the human person, who stands above all things and whose rights and duties are universal and inviolable. Every human being was created in God’s image, possessing within the capability of choosing freely and responding to and becoming good. Any human society, if it is to be well ordered and productive, must lay down as a foundation this principle: Every human being is a person, that is, his nature is endowed with intelligence and free will. The function of law then, according the Church, is to permit a citizen to make

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