On Monday, November 2nd, the meeting “Caring for Human Dignity” was held, organized by the Universidad Austral in the context of the visit of Pope Leo XIV to Argentina which will take place on November 9, 10 and 11.

The purpose of the meeting was to learn more about the Pope and to reflect on his message and apostolate regarding the care of human life.

The second panel, “Care and Vulnerability,” was led by Dolores Vicente, dean of the ICF, along with Matías Najún, head of the Comprehensive Care Service of the HUA, and María Amalia Pérex Bourbon, professor at the Faculty of Engineering.

In her lecture “Safeguarding Fragility: Caring for the Most Vulnerable and the Leading Role of Family and Education,” Dolores Dimier pointed out that vulnerability is a human condition: “If vulnerability is constitutive, then the pertinent question is not how to eliminate it, but how to respond to it.” In this regard, she referred to Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnificat Humanitas, which affirms that “dignity is ontological since it is neither acquired nor lost and belongs to every person regardless of their circumstances.”

The document also identifies the family “as a primary social good and as the first environment in which each person develops their potential because vulnerability, interdependence, and solidarity between generations are intertwined,” but it also warns that “the family is a fragile social good, exposed to precariousness, so the culture of care demands that the family not care alone but needs cultural, legal, and economic support. And if the family is the first school of care, formal education, to a certain extent, expands upon it, grounds it, and projects it into the public sphere.”

Regarding AI, he indicated that it is necessary to "educate people to decide when and why not to use it, and thus offer what it cannot: shared learning time and reliable relationships."

In conclusion, he invited everyone to join the Pope in the motto “Welcome all. Go and proclaim,” taking as an example the Virgin Mary, guardian of fragility and first evangelizer.