Such an understanding is essential in giving policy makers, Bishops, governors, teachers and parents the confidence to promote an authentic and positive view of Church teaching on human sexuality and the
inherent dignity of human life in schools, parishes and the home.
For pro-life Christians — who believe in the sanctity and
dignity of human life at all stages of development — can we support tactics that potentially undermine our other convictions and beliefs?
For varying motives — to subvert religious faith, support «rights» for animals, convince us to tread more lightly on the earth, reject the
intrinsic dignity of human life — those asserting our putative apehood want us to define ourselves as merely another animal in the forest.
Recognition of the intrinsic and
equal dignity of human life underlies any plain reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.
The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent
dignity of human life.
In the absence of a synthesis that is capable of reconciling the findings of modern science with the Catholic faith, our culture has lost sight of
the dignity of human life and the greatness of our vocation.
Only in Jesus, there is meaning and
dignity of human life.
At the moment of kickoff, we tend to suspend, or willfully forget, our understanding of
the dignity of human life.
They do not have respect for
the dignity of human life and the only thing they respect is brutal force.
A society growing toward greater maternal support and respect for
the dignity of all human life needs these narratives, even the ones that do not end in remorse.
This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and
the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.
The Archbishop of Denver in a pastoral letter on recent court rulings: «The direction of the modern state is against
the dignity of human life.
But Romney called attention to Ryan's religion Saturday in introducing him as his running mate: «A faithful Catholic, Paul believes in the worth and
dignity of every human life,» Romney said.
It is precisely that mentality of being politically correct, not wanting to hurt anyones FEELINGS, that has lessened religion and has lessened
the dignity of human life.
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for
the dignity of human life.
Besides condemning abortion and euthanasia as attacks on human life, Evangelium Vitae addresses other hotly debated issues in medical ethics that implicate the value and
dignity of human life.
«I have spoken out clearly about
the dignity of all human life and the nature of holy matrimony as designed by God and will continue to do so whenever the situation warrants,» Tobin said.
They want to convey a message that assisted suicide would «undermine
the dignity of human life and put vulnerable lives at risk».
The cardinal will say: «It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which more comprehensively attacks the sanctity and
dignity of human life.»
Either he upholds
the dignity of human life or he doesn't.
«It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which more comprehensively attacks the sanctity and
dignity of human life than this particular bill,» Cardinal Keith O'Brien, archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh declared last week.
The endeavor to affirm
the dignity of human life can not be waged without pictures, without representational justice.»
As pointed out above, we need to get real about
the dignity of a human life bent in lifelong labor in pursuit of megre subsitance — a pitiful double standard.