it called

to mind for me in the Summa, where Thomas Aquinas is talking about putting to death the murderer, that through their sin, I have the quote here, he says, "...by sinning man departs from the order of reason and consequently falls away from the dignity of his manhood insofar as he is naturally free and exists for himself and he falls into the slavish state of the beasts by being disposed of according as he is useful to others." And...

What we have in the document in Dignitas Infinita, you see these distinctions being laid out between the ontological, moral, social, and existential dignity of man.

And there are distinctions being made between what sorts of dignity can be lost and which sorts cannot be lost.

And so there it's clarified that the ontological dignity of man cannot be lost.

But the moral dignity, we can debase ourselves.

We can do acts that are inhuman.

ministries built around it.