Forty-seven years ago, Pope John Paul II issued his first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man). The first letter in the centuries-old encyclical tradition devoted to the Christian idea of the human person, Redemptor Hominis was also what Cardinal James Hickey once called the “program notes” for John Paul’s entire pontificate: a preview of the great themes he would stress over the next twenty-six years, especially the inalienable dignity and infinite value of every human life.
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