Mazurek, Franciszek Janusz2024-02-132024-02-132008Roczniki Teologiczne, 2008, T. 55, z. 10, s. 9-47.1233-1457http://theo-logos.pl/xmlui/handle/123456789/13088Tłumaczenie streszczenia / Translated by Tadeusz Karłowicz.In the created world the innate reason and freedom are the highest values. A person’s very dignity is a fundamental moral principle. The conception of life that is promoted by the Church is not „conservative”; on the contrary, its is absolutely modem, as it is confirmed by the latest research on the human genome. Human life is a universal, sacred, personalistic, moral, humanist value, and not only a biological one. The right to live is not conditioned by the degree of development of a human being, by certain features acquired only with time, or by the so-called social-economic conditions. John Paul II emphasizes: ‘hence it is necessary that a man should be really loved if human rights are to be fully protected’ Anyway, both all the moral norms and the proclaimed human rights have the same aim. Marriage is a natural value and it is also a sacrum. The family is a multidimensional value, the place where personal development takes place and the place of all its members’ happiness, to which they have inalienable right. Both the family and marriage are natural institutions and this is why they are not going to lose their values. Reliable research done by responsible sociologists, and not by ideologists, indicates that in young people’ awareness a peculiar renaissance of the value of m arriage and the fam ily has appeared, although a plague th at claim s its victim s reigns in this field.plAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Polandhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/godność osoby ludzkiejgodnośćosoba ludzkagodność ludzkauniwersalne normy moralnenormy moralneprawa człowiekaochrona praw człowiekaKatolicka Nauka Społecznarodzinanauki o rodziniehuman person’s dignitydignityhuman personhuman dignityuniversal moral normsmoral normshuman rightsprotection of human rightsCatholic social teachingfamilyfamily studiesArticle