Life Issues
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.
Having babies: a “resource” and an “answer” to overcome the current crisis
The Italian bishops’ message: “Generare la vita vince la crisi”
The Italian Bishops, in their message for the upcoming 35th National Day for Life that will be celebrated on 3rd February 2013, offer a word of encouragement to Italian families in these days of economic crisis and call on those responsible to help all families to overcome their difficulties through family-friendly policies that also include measures to alleviate them from fiscal burdens.
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.
