The protection of the right to life is the foundation of all another human rights – without it there is neither real freedom nor genuine improvement of societies. This is 1 of the key messages that Pope Leon XIV addressed to members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See.
The speech, described by the Polish ambassador to the Vatican as "programming", despite its clarity and importance, passed almost without echo in most planet media.
"The community is healthy and truly thrives only erstwhile it protects the sanctity of human life and actively promotes it," the Holy Father emphasized. At the same time, he pointed out that today, in the name of alleged “new laws”, freedom of conscience, spiritual freedom and even self-righteousness are restricted. right To life. As a result, as he warned, the human rights structure loses its vitality, creating space for force and oppression.
Pope Leon XIV did not halt with the diagnosis. He pointed out a very concrete way for countries and global communities: protecting human life from conception to natural death and caring for the household as the foundation of societies. At the heart of this imagination is life understood as a priceless gift that develops in a stable, faithful and liable relation between a female and a man.
"The call to love and to life (...) involves a fundamental ethical imperative to enable families to accept and take full care of unborn life," explained the Pope, noting the dramatic decline in birth rates in many countries. In this context, he firmly rejected practices that contradict or instrumentalize the beginnings of life. He simply mentioned the abortion, pointing out that “it interrupts the developing life and rejects the acceptance of the gift of life”.
The peculiar concern of the Holy See, as Pope Leon XIV pointed out, is the financing of alleged cross-border mobility in order to gain access to "the right to a safe abortion". The Pope found it regrettable that public funds would be utilized to destruct life alternatively of investing them in support of mothers and families.
"The main nonsubjective must stay the protection of all unborn kid and the effective and concrete support of all female in order to be able to accept life," he stressed.
Why have specified clear words not been made public? About the comment Our diary asked the familologist Dr. Piotr Guzdek of the Polish Association of Human Life Defenders. In his opinion, we are dealing with systemic silence.
"We live in a culture profoundly penetrated by relativism and axiological chaos. Leon XIV is forced to match the most basic ethical and anthropological axioms, which paralyzes the world's public opinion," the expert said. As he added, the transparency and clarity of papal teaching made liberal environments – besides ecclesiastical – decide to isolate this speech.
Dr. Piotr Guzdek points out that Leon XIV's next enunciations refute his attempts to represent him as a pope pursuing progressive demands.
"We are dealing with the Pope, who powerfully focuses the attention of the Church on Christ and defends orthodox moral teaching, in the same line as John Paul II and Benedict XVI acted against the dictatorship of relativism."
The Papal speech is besides crucial for the Church in Poland. It strengthens the Episcopate's belief that he has the right and the work to talk in public debate, including abortion, including the psychiatric grounds. At the same time, it points to the request for stronger emphasis on bioethic teaching in pastoral preaching, due to the fact that without the formation of the consciences of the faithful, legislative changes will not gain public support.
Pope Leon XIV besides recalled the work to advance genuine solidarity with the elderly, the lonely and the sick, stressing the request to make palliative care and explicitly rejecting euthanasia as a "false form of compassion". He besides warned against the “orwell” language, which in the name of inclusiveness displaces fact and effectively restricts freedom of speech.
Referring to De Civitate Dei St Augustine, the Pope noted that although times have changed, there are akin challenges: humanitarian crises, conflicts and the threat of peace. Therefore, all nation has the right to live in peace, and politics must return to the service of man.
Leon XIV's speech is simply a clear signal: human life, each from conception to natural death, remains at the center of the Church's teaching. Silence around these words does not change their weight. On the contrary, it shows how much they are needed today.
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Source: Our Journal
