Personhood resides in the potential that we have to freely and intelligently realize, as fully as possible, our destiny as human beings. More implications for Faith and Justice All human persons share in the same potential. As persons all people have a right to realize their potential. When someone is hindered from meeting his or her basic needs and thereby hindering the realization of human potential, that is injustice. Even more implications for Faith and Justice Because we need each other in the realization of our personhood, we have a responsibility to help others to realize their potential.
Rights are both negative and positive.
Together these documents are called the International Bill of Human Rights. We have always held our way of life as a standard for human rights Generally this is true, but we must be vigilant so that those rights are never compromised. Written in 1963, during the second Vatican council. The dignity of the human person, realized in community is the foundation of Catholic social thought and its theory of human rights. We depend on community in the realization of human potential To each of these spheres there are corresponding human rights.