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Jul 14, 2024 · Justice is having everything in order—which is to say it is much more than punishment or prevention. The just world is a world ordered and oriented to worship. Worship is what we are for. It is why we were made. In the philosophical way of putting it, it is our final cause: our “meaning of life.”
Mar 23, 2018 · For through Jesus Christ, God invites each of us to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children. He calls us to share in His eternal life. A sharing of the image and likeness of God that makes each one of us unique and irreplaceable.
Apr 5, 2019 · By a mandate from the successors of the apostles, Catholic editors share in the teaching mission of the Church. It is a sacred trust, carrying many responsibilities.
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- You Did It to Me
- Preach The Gospel of Life
Fortunately, a greater power enables people to resist and overcome this systematic devaluing of the human person. John Paul points in particular to the blood of Christ, the sacramental communion between God and human beings that reminds us of the value of our lives. Countless people inspired by love of God defend the value of the human person every...
God’s commandment not only indicates what ought never to be done—the intentional killing of an innocent human person—but it also points to the importance of respect for and defense of life. It is permissible in some cases to use force, even lethal force, to defend innocent human lives. The commandment “You shall not murder” does not exclude justifi...
Abortion constitutes the most common violation of this moral principle. A wide variety of factors lead to this choice, including the degradation of motherhood, a lack of support for families, the glamorization of irresponsible sexual activity, and the effort of many institutions, foundations, and pressure groups to push for legalization and accepta...
Lethal experimentation on human embryos (embryonic stem cell research) falls under the prohibition articulated by the pontiff. Likewise, euthanasia poses a threat to the very end of human life. Although we have no obligation to make use of all possible means to extend life, especially when the dying process has begun, an obligation exists not to ki...
John Paul teaches that every Christian has an obligation to be at the service of life by word, prayer, example, service, care, concern, and political action. The Pope affirms “the inseparable connection between the person, his life, and his bodiliness” (EV 81). Mistaken understandings of the human person reduce us to our inner thoughts, or our psyc...
The Second Vatican Council taught that “by his Incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every person” (Gaudium et Spes 22). Consequently, wrote the Pope, “Christ continues to reveal himself and to enter into fellowship with us so that rejection of human life, in whatever form that rejection takes, is really a rejection of ...
There are three grades of life essentially distinct: vegetative, sentient or animal, and intellectual or spiritual life; for the capacity for immanent action is of three kinds. Vegetative operations result in the assimilation of material elements into the substance of the living being.
Mar 2, 2020 · The purpose of our life is to share in the Divine Life by being in perfect communion with God. Perfect union with God demands and enables perfect relationship with fellow beings. Our relationship with God and fellow beings is marked by love. Love is God’s very own nature.
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Jun 21, 2019 · Our purpose is to become most fully ourselves, to reach our full potential and to thrive. The meaning of life is love, from God and through us.
