Speaking at a UN meeting on human rights, the Vatican’s representative reminded the assembly that human rights take precedence over the authority of states and national governments.
Just what the philosophers of old have told humankind from the beginning. However, states are “secular,” and so they typically do not admit the existence of anything greater than themselves.
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