Dec01

Evangelium Vitae #3: New Threats to Human Life

  Evangelium Vitae #3: New Threats to Human Life Every individual, precisely by reason of the mystery of the Word of God who was made flesh (cf Jn 1;14) is entrusted to the maternal care of the Church. Therefore every threat to human dignity and life must necessarily be felt in the Church’s very heart; it cannot but affect her at the core of her faith in the Redemptive Incarnation of the Son of God, and engage her in her...

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Nov29

Evangelium Vitae #2

  Evangelium Vitae 2: The Incomparable Worth of the Human Person. 2. Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of this earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and the inestimable value of human life in its temporal phase. Life in time, in fact, is the fundamental condition, the initial stage and an integral part...

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May08

Evangelium Vitae: To Proclaim Jesus Is To Proclaim Life

                Evangelium Vitae Articles 80-82: To Proclaim Jesus is To Proclaim Life This post is taken from “John Paul II  - The Encyclicals in Everyday Language” by Joseph G. Donders   That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you (1 Jn 1:3) Proclaiming the Gospel of Life   80. Jesus is the only Gospel; we have nothing further to say or any other...

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May08

The Nature of Virtue

  Reprinted with permission from the Holy Family School of Faith.   The Nature of Virtue Or: How to Attain Happiness   In the last chapter we saw what every human person craves, and what motivates all human action, namely, certain goods such as friendship, love, accomplishment, health, etc… Further, we saw that if we pursue all these goods in the right way, it will lead to our happiness, whereas if we pursue them...

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