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Since the 1960s, the Church has recognised the place of human rights and their consonance with Christian revelation. Popes have denounced the oppression of peoples, violations of human dignity, etc. But what about the breaches of human rights of which the Church’s magisterium could be the author, in particular through its institutional machinery? More and more voices are being raised today, inside and outside the Church, to denounce, in the name of human rights, serious and sometimes criminal deviations for which the Church’s magisterium and its executives are directly or indirectly blamed, in particular with regard to the handling of cases of sex abuse or abuse of power, the place of women, and canonical trials involving the judgment of abusive clerics.