The latest papal declaration on human dignity, Dignitas Infinita, was issued in response to the 75th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights, but it reiterates more fundamental truths. It quotes St Paul VI, who affirmed that “no anthropology equals that of the Church regarding the human person – particularly concerning the person’s originality, dignity, the intangibility and richness of the person’s fundamental rights, sacredness, capacity for education, aspiration to a complete development, and immortality.” That last element is of course absent from the UN Declaration, but it reminds us that human beings are not just endowed with dignity but destined for glory as well.