Focusing on bio-ethical issues is to offer a partial (and too easy) reading of Dignitatis Infinita, the doctrinal declaration on human rights released by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. We need to confront those socio-cultural and religious thought-patterns that are behind why many in India still live in subhuman conditions, something that Dignitas Infinita challenges. The media are “focused on gender theory, sex change, surrogacy etc., but” people who “struggle with poverty, exploitation, discrimination, lack of access to primary healthcare” can-not leave others indi-fferent.

• Cardinal Anthony Poola
  Archbishop Hyderabad