The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness:… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex nihilo sui… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus? — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image