Learning To Think Rigorously, So As To

Motherhood Involves A Special Communion With The Mystery Of Life, As It Develops In The Mother's Womb. The Mother Is Filled With Wonder At This Mystery Of Life, And 'understands' With Unique Intuition What Is Happening Inside Her. In The Light Of The 'beginning', The Mother Accepts And Loves As A Person The Child She Is Carrying In Her Womb. This Unique Contact With The New Human Being Developing Within Her Gives Rise To An Attitude Towards Human Beings - Not Only Towards Her Own Child, But Every Human Being - Which Profoundly Marks The Woman's Personality.

When Our Whole Life Is One Faith, Hope, Love, Prayer And Silence, A Consecrated Life Always Bound Up In The Eucharist, Then The 'urge' Towards God Springs.

What Does Our Generation Owe To Generations Yet Unborn? ...there Is An Order In The Universe Which Must Be Respected, And... The Human Person, Endowed With The Capability Of Choosing Freely, Has A Grave Responsibility To Preserve This Order For The Well-being Of Future Generations.

Laws Which Authorize And Promote Abortion And Euthanasia Are Therefore Radically Opposed Not Only To The Good Of The Individual But Also To The Common Good; As Such They Are Completely Lacking In Authentic Juridical Validity. Disregard For The Right To Life, Precisely Because It Leads To The Killing Of The Person Whom Society Exists To Serve, Is What Most Directly Conflicts With The Possibility Of Achieving The Common Good. Consequently, A Civil Law Authorizing Abortion Or Euthanasia Ceases By That Very Fact To Be A True, Morally Binding Civil Law.

Eucharistic Worship Is Not So Much Worship Of The Inaccessible Transcendence As Worship Of The Divine Condescension, And It Is Also The Merciful And Redeeming Transformation Of The World In The Human Heart