It Is Jesus Who Stirs In You

There Cannot Be Forgotten The Great Possibilities Of Mass Media In Promoting Dialogue, Becoming Vehicles For Reciprocal Knowledge, Of Solidarity And Of Peace. They Become A Powerful Resource For Good If Used To Foster Understanding Between Peoples, A Destructive 'weapon' If Used To Foster Injustice And Conflicts.

The Legal Toleration Of Abortion Or Of Euthanasia Can In No Way Claim To Be Based On Respect For The Conscience Of Others, Precisely Because Society Has The Right And The Duty To Protect Itself Against The Abuses Which Can Occur In The Name Of Conscience And Under The Pretext Of Freedom.

Side By Side With The Miseries Of Underdevelopment...we Find Ourselves Up Against A Form Of Superdevelopment, Equally Inadmissable. This Superdevelopment Consists In An Excessive Availability Of Material Goods For The Benefit Of Certain Social Groups And Makes People Slaves Of "possession" And Immediate Gratification, With No Other Horizon Than The Multiplication Or Continual Replacement Of The Things Already Owned With Others Still Better. This Is The Civilization Of Consumption, Or "consumerism," Which Involves So Much Throwing Away And Waste.

The Inviolability Of The Person Which Is A Reflection Of The Absolute Inviolability Of God, Finds Its Primary And Fundamental Expression In The Inviolability Of Human Life. Above All, The Common Outcry, Which Is Justly Made On Behalf Of Human Rights-for Example, The Right To Health, To Home, To Work, To Family, To Culture- Is False And Illusory If The Right To Life, The Most Basic And Fundamental Right And The Condition For All Other Personal Rights, Is Not Defended With Maximum Determination.

Motherhood Involves A Special Communion With The Mystery Of Life, As It Develops In The Mother's Womb. The Mother Is Filled With Wonder At This Mystery Of Life, And 'understands' With Unique Intuition What Is Happening Inside Her. In The Light Of The 'beginning', The Mother Accepts And Loves As A Person The Child She Is Carrying In Her Womb. This Unique Contact With The New Human Being Developing Within Her Gives Rise To An Attitude Towards Human Beings - Not Only Towards Her Own Child, But Every Human Being - Which Profoundly Marks The Woman's Personality.