You might think Catholics and human rights lawyers should have a good deal in common. The political idea of universal rights beyond curtailment by secular powers certainly seems to chime neatly with the Christian doctrine of the unconditional preciousness of each individual as a being made in the image of God.
Indeed, at one time this was probably so. The religious thinking behind much of, for example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 or the European Convention on Human Rights in 1950 is fairly obvious.
