Dignitas Personae is the title of a 2008 instruction by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith giving doctrinal directives on certain embryonic ethical controversies that had emerged since 1987, after Donum Vitae was released. The document was signed by William Levada and Luis Ladaria Ferrer on June 20, 2008 with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI. Also Elio Sgreccia collaborated to the redaction of the document.