Pope Benedict XVI at a three-day conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers on The Human Genome:
The people of our time, sensitized by the terrible vicissitudes that have covered the 20th century and the very beginning of this one in mourning, are able to understand that man’s dignity is not identified with his DNA genes and that it does not diminish with the eventual presence of physical differences or genetic defects.
ZENIT, November 21, 2005