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Man was created by God in unity of body and soul²³⁸ Cf. Fourth Lateran Ecumenical Council, Chapter 1, De Fide Catholica: DS 800DS — Denzinger–Schönmetzer (Enchiridion Symbolorum), p. 259; First Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dei Filius, c. 1: De Deo rerum omnium Creatore: DS 3002DS — Denzinger–Schönmetzer (Enchiridion Symbolorum), p. 587; First Vatican Ecumenical Council, canons 2, 5: DS 3022, 3025DS — Denzinger–Schönmetzer (Enchiridion Symbolorum), pp. 592, 593.. “The spiritual and immortal soul is the principle of unity of the human being, whereby it exists as a whole — corpore et anima unus — as a person. These definitions not only point out that the body, which has been promised the resurrection, will also share in glory. They also remind us that reason and free will are linked with all the bodily and sense faculties. The person, including the body, is completely entrusted to himself, and it is in the unity of body and soul that the person is the subject of his own moral acts”²³⁹ John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor, 48: AAS 85AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 85 (1993) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1993), 1172..