NEWSLETTER INSERTS ON LIFE AND PEACE

‘Every human life has a unique and unrepeatable valuable in and of itself; it constitutes an inestimable worth. This, must be announced ever anew, with the courage of words and the courage of action. This calls for solidarity and love for the great human family, and for each one of its members’.

Pope Francis

‘Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law’.

Pope John Paul II

‘At this particular time, abortion has become the fundamental human rights issue for all men and women of good will. . For us abortion is of overriding concern because it negates two of our most fundamental moral imperatives: respect for innocent life, and preferential concern for the weak and defenseless’.

Pope John Paul II

‘We are, ultimately, each of us, our brother’s keeper. And it is in solidarity with each other and in obedience to the divine law that we can hope to see the refoundation of a better and more just society in which the sacredness of life is acknowledged and honoured at all its stages’.

Maria Steen

‘Reflect on this my dearest children. We can see neither our own dignity nor the defects which spoil the beauty of our soul, unless we look at ourselves in the peaceful sea of God’s being in which we are imaged…Remain in the holy, gentle love of God’

St Catherine of Siena, ‘Look at Yourself in the Water’

'I have huge respect for mothers who have endured an abortion and today live with the trauma of it.  I have huge regard for midwives, obstetricians and medical personnel whose conscientious objection must be respected.  I have huge time for people who are passionate on this subject, sometimes to the detriment of their own career progression.  We all must become advocates for the protection of life; for the dignity and sacred value of every human life from the moment of conception to its natural end'.

Bishop Denis Nulty