healingsocieties

Right to Life: Healing of Societies

“I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly”
(Jn 10,10)

"Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or willful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where people are treated as mere instruments of gain rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others like them are infamies indeed. They poison human society, and they do more harm to those who practise them than to those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator".
(Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: Gaudium et Spes, 27)

Spiderrock, Canyon de Chelly

I. The "gates of hell" and the "gates of heaven" in Christotherapy

II. Viktor Frankl's diagnosis of present-day societies: existential vacuum

III. From the "culture of death" to the "culture of life"

IV. Right to life

The message of Our Lady of Fatima for the XXI century
90 years after the apparitions

Marriage, the "primary agent of peace"
- a glance at the texts of Benedict XVI

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