Catholicism: The Pivotal Players — Season 1, Episode 12: Bartolomé de las Casas: The Activist

Episode synopsis

From where does the cultural regard for human rights emerge? What informs the Church’s teaching concerning the dignity of the human person? This 16th century scholar who became a Dominican friar represents how the Church has engaged the culture as the advocate for the least among us and provided a social theory that accepts as foundational the inherent dignity of the human person.

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More episodes from Season 1

• E1St. Francis of Assisi - The Reformer
• E2St. Thomas Aquinas: The Theologian
• E3St. Catherine of Siena: The Mystic
• E4Bl. John Henry Newman: The Convert
• E5G.K. Chesterton: The Evangelist
• E6Michelangelo: The Artist
• E7St. Augustine of Hippo: The Teacher
• E8St. Benedict of Nursia: The Monk
• E9Fulton J. Sheen: The Communicator
• E10Flannery O’Connor: The Storyteller
• E11St. Ignatius of Loyola: The Founder