Last Saturday, while celebrating Women’s Day worldwide, the Pope sent a message to the Jubilee pilgrimage of movement for life in Italywhich was read by Cardinal Pietro Parolin. They are fulfilled now … 50 years of the prophetic opening of the first life aid center, which took place in Florence in 1975.
In this message, Francisco observes that today “the conceived child represents, par excellence, every man and woman who does not count, that he has no voice”, and stresses that the commitment to his life and dignity is an essential lever to change a structured mentality and order in «the categories of possessing, making, producing and seem». Just one day before, in our country a manifesto had been published claiming to include in the Constitution the universal right to abortion, as recently happened in France.
Francisco affirms in his message that “human life is sacred, it has been created by God for a large and beautiful destiny … and a fair society is not constructed by eliminating unwanted children, the elderly who are no longer autonomous or incurable sick people.” Attracts attention that some continue to say that this Pope has not fought the Battle for lifethis is one of the great misunderstandings around the pontificate. Perhaps it happens that he has done it with accents and parameters that are not those that previously determine some activists of the multiple galaxy “pro life.”
Directing the Italian movement for Italian life, Francisco points out an axis of action that in his opinion is decisive, «bet on womenfor its ability to receive, generosity and courage ». And it offers a useful political principle for all, hardly rejectable by those who proclaim progressives: “Liberate the woman from the conditions that push her not to give birth to her child is a principle of renewal of civil society.”
Throughout the Western world, ethical and cultural clarity has been lost on the value of the nascent life, and has been forgotten, moreover, it explicitly refuses, than defend the conceived and not born It should be an obligation of any legal system, as our own constitutional text recognized in its origin. In that historical context, which the Pope knows perfectly, initiatives such as life aid centers, in their various modalities, are a light in the middle of the fog. “I thank you for the pages of hope and tenderness that you help write in the book of history,” Francisco told them, while preventing them against any form of resignation or defeatism: “You give and you will continue to bear fruit.” And with ways that will evolve, they will be more necessary than ever.
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