Pope affirms link between Church’s pro-life and social teaching

[_Abyssinia]

Quoting Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Pope Francis said on May 22 that the Church “forcefully maintains [the] link between life ethics and social ethics.”

Pope Francis made his remarks in a message to a Vatican conference devoted to women and sustainable development, a conference cosponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the World Union of Women’s Catholic Organizations, and the World Women’s Alliance for Life and Family.

“Women face a variety of challenges and difficulties in various parts of the world,” Pope Francis wrote. “In the West, at times they still experience discrimination in the workplace; they are often forced to choose between work and family; they not infrequently suffer violence in their lives as fiancées, wives, mothers, sisters and grandmothers.”

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[Exiled_Child]

The final paragraph is so beautiful!

“Issues relating to life are intrinsically connected to social questions,” Pope Francis added. “When we defend the right to life, we do so in order that each life – from conception to its natural end – may be a dignified life, one free from the scourge of hunger and poverty, of violence and persecution.”

Pope Francis certainly has an amazing knack for concisely putting things in their correct perspective.

 

[Michael_Mayo]

The final paragraph is so beautiful!

“Issues relating to life are intrinsically connected to social questions,” Pope Francis added. “When we defend the right to life, we do so in order that each life – from conception to its natural end – may be a dignified life, one free from the scourge of hunger and poverty, of violence and persecution.”

Pope Francis certainly has an amazing knack for concisely putting things in their correct perspective.

We are blessed to have him.