"Education in love as self-giving is also the indispensable premise for parents called to give their children a clear and delicate sex education. Faced with a culture that largely reduces human sexuality to the level of something common place, since…
Category: Pro-Life Month
Respect Life Month – Day Nineteen
“I started changing my mind in 1973, when advanced technology moved into our hospitals and offices. I speak now of ultrasound imaging, fetal heart monitoring electronically, hysteroscopy, fetoscopy—things that gave us a window into the womb. Over a period of…
Respect Life Month – Day Eighteen
"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother…
Respect Life Month – Day Seventeen
"Nothing we do to defend the human person, no matter how small, is ever unfruitful or forgotten. Our actions touch other lives and move other hearts in ways we can never fully understand in this world. Don't ever underestimate the…
Respect Life Month – Day Sixteen
"We need to bring the Gospel of life to the heart of every man and woman and to make it penetrate every part of society." (John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae #80) Become the pro-life contact person for your Church. Keep…
Respect Life Month – Day Fifteen
"To be truly a people at the service of life we must propose these truths constantly and courageously from the very first proclamation of the Gospel, and thereafter in catechesis, in the various forms of preaching, in personal dialogue and…
Respect Life Month – Day Fourteen
"A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world... Let us... discover anew the humility and courage to pray and fast so that power from on high will break down the walls…
Respect Life Month – Day Thirteen
"Like David, we have a few small stones and a slingshot, or so our limited resources often seem to us when we face such powerful forces. But we have God with us, the same God who guided David's smooth stone to…
Respect Life Month – Day Twelve
"Dear families, rejoice in fatherhood and motherhood! Openness to life is a sign of openness to the future, confidence in the future, just as respect for the natural moral law frees people, rather than demeaning them! The good of the…
Respect Life Month – Day Eleven
"Connected with our prayer must be the thoughtful and faithful reflection upon the Church's teaching on the respect for all human life and the integrity of the family. In our homes, in our Catholic schools and universities, in parish study…