“The Holy See is celebrating Blessed John Paul’s landmark encyclical Evangelium vitae (The Gospel of Life) June 15-16. Issued in 1995 and dated March 25 to coincide with the Feast of the Annunciation, The Gospel of Life is considered by many to be the best of an impressive set of 16 encyclical letters from his papacy, and perhaps his most heartfelt.
“It makes sense – does it not? – when we consider his own life experiences in twentieth-century Europe. His father had fought in a senseless world war that produced tens of millions of casualties. Besides toppling the Czar and establishing atheistic communism in Russia, that war set the scene for an even bloodier one a mere 20 years later, which mowed down millions throughout the world.”
In a recent commentary, Father C. J. McCloskey III, a Research Fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, DC, reflected on what progress the United States has made in creating or recovering a “Culture of Life” since Blessed John Paul issued his encyclical.
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Truth and Charity: Hope for the Gospel of Life in America (12 JUN 13)
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