Generated 2026-09-12. Every claim about a specific tradition cites that tradition's own authoritative source, never a cooperative interfaith umbrella body.
Values in Care is not an interfaith organization, interfaith care model, or faith-based service. Faith, spirituality, worldview, culture, family, community, and shared-value material are optional context within a broader values-centered healthcare decision framework. Cooperative interfaith bodies may be cited only for pluralism, dialogue, or shared-ethics context; they never define a tradition or a person’s preferences. Tradition-specific healthcare claims rely on appropriately qualified tradition-specific sources, and individual preferences must always be elicited from the person rather than inferred from identity.
Allow-list rule
Cooperative interfaith bodies (PoWR, RfP, URI) are referenced for shared-values framing only. They are explicitly excluded from every tradition's domain allow-list. Excluded hosts include: parliamentofreligions.org, rfp.org, religionsforpeace.org, uri.org.
Shared values, by tradition
Human Dignity
The inherent worth of every person, especially in illness and dying.
Tradition
Expression
Primary source
Allow-list rule
Roman Catholicism
Catholic teaching holds that human dignity persists through serious illness, dependency, and dying.
Rabbinic health-care sources frame care for people who are ill and access to needed health care as communal obligations; individual treatment decisions require case-specific guidance.