Dignitatis Humanae Institute
"The DHI was founded in 2008 by a small group of Catholics working in Brussels, under the leadership of Benjamin Harnwell, who was at that time chief of staff to Nirj Deva, a British Member of the European Parliament. Deva is now the President of the International Committee on Human Dignity – the Institute’s most influential political arm. Harnwell came up with the idea for theInstitute in 2004 after the mainstream Italian politician Rocco Buttiglione was forced to withdraw his candidacy as Italy’s nominee for Vice President of the European Commission because of his Catholic views on homosexuality. Mr Buttiglione, who is also a philosophy professor and was a friend of the late Pope John Paul II, was rejected not for anything he had ever said but for what, as a Catholic, he might think. Deeply disturbed by this, Harnwell set about creating the Institute by forming the parliamentary working groups on human dignity throughout Europe." [1]
- Cardinal Burke is the President of the Advisory Board of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute
