# Person, Human ## Catechism of the Catholic Church The human individual, made in the image of God; not some thing but some one, a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, capable of knowledge, self-possession, and freedom, who can enter into communion with other persons--and with God ([[1.2.1.1.6.p1b#^ccc-357|357]], [[1.2.1.1.6.p1b#^ccc-362|362]]; cf. [[3.1.1.0.p5f#^ccc-1700|1700]]). The human person needs to live in society, which is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them ([[3.1.2.1.p6g#^ccc-1879|1879]]). ## Vatican II - human person (dignity of) — "all things on earth should be related to man as their center and crown" — [[gaudium-et-spes-01#^gs-12|GS ¶12]] - human person (dignity, foundation of rights) — "A sense of the dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and more deeply on the consciousness" — [[dignitatis-humanae#^dh-1|DH ¶1]]