In the 1930s and 1940s, the Catholic Church underwent a significant shift in its stance on what are known as the "rights of man," embracing these rights and grounding them in the universal principle of human dignity. This marked a departure from the Church's prior focus on civil rights, which were traditionally tied to specific national contexts. There is a debate in the literature regarding the precise moment when this shift occurred, and whether it represents a continuity or a rupture in the Church's doctrine. Contrary to scholars as Samuel Moyn who locate the start of human rights language by the Catholic Church in the 40's, I locate the breach moment earlier, in 1931, when Pope Pius XI issued Quadragesimo Anno and in 1937 when Pope Pius XI issued three encyclicals condemning different forms of totalitarianism while employing the language of natural law to advocate for human rights. Since then, these themes have been consistently woven into the Church's teachings on human rights. However, in recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the way the Church aligns its discourse on human rights with a critique on its individual character.