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The phrase "life is full of challenges" includes in it not only those who are already inhabiting this world but also those who are still making their way into it, therefore such challenges must be addressed in such a way that no damage is done to us or to others - including the unborn child.

Child's Best Interest - A Call to Reflection

During this second week of the electoral campaign the question of adoption by homosexual couples came in the forefront as the two main political parties' leaders, Joseph Muscat (PL) first and then Laurence Gonzi (PN) concurred that the best interest of the child should be sought when it comes to entrusting them in the care of a couple irrespective if it's a heterosexual or a homosexual one.

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Defending Human Life, Marriage and Sexuality

It is true that our society is showing ever more signs of secularisation that sever all ties with the values taught by Christ in the Gospel and by the Catholic Church. These values are ultimately nothing else except the same authentic human values that are common to all mankind, rooted in human nature and purified and enlightened by Christian faith. Such a secularist mentality is based on a subjectivistic and relativistic view of morality, which has done away with objective norms, inherent in human nature understood not in a biological but in an ethical and metaphysical sense, which hold good independently from their possible approval or otherwise by the individual or by the general consensus of the public.

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