In some ways, there’s never been a better time to be a Catholic. The Catholic Church, beyond so many other communities, has a very clear vision of the dignity of the human person, and the way in which the gift of our humanity is an aspect of the imago Dei.

We are living through a change of both culture and civilisation. We can document the reasons behind the present cultural shift in any number of conceptual ways, but how we understand our humanity is at the centre of the change. Sanctity is being replaced by “disposability”.