Yuriy Tykhovlis, PhD, is a an antitrafficking lawyer and writer.

This post is a part of our series on Magnifica Humanitas.

Introduction

Magnifica Humanitas (MH) represents an organic evolution of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) that applies the perennial principles of human dignity, the common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity to the novel threats of the digital frontier, including online human trafficking and digital exploitation. In this post, I posit that the encyclical’s unprecedented attention to digital exploitation, evidenced by the substantial focus on these concepts, signals their elevation from peripheral concerns to central structural threats to human dignity.

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Luca Pietro Vanoni is a full professor of comparative public law at the University of Milan. Benedetta Vimercati is an associate professor of constitutional law at the University of Milan. This post is a part of our series…