Respect For The Dignity Of Others Includes

Determined Secularists View These As Residual Inconsistencies That They Have Not Yet Go Around To Extirpating And That May Not Be Worth Bothering About... Form The Secularist Perspective It May Be That The Essential Battles Have Been Won And Excessive Zeal In Pressing A Final Mopping-up Operation Might Only Excited Further Public Hostility.

My Hope That The Church Will Emerge As A Strong Leader In Society Is Just That A Hope. What I Described In The Catholic Moment Is Not A Prophecy But The Outline Of A Possibility. There Are No Guarantees That My Hopes Expressed In The Catholic Moment Will Ever Be Realised.

Respect For The Dignity Of Others Includes Treating Them As Rational Creatures Capable Of Being Persuadad By Rational Argument, Even In The Face Of Frequent Evidence To The Contrary.

In Legal Parlance, That Is Called 'the Rational Person Test,' ... That's Where Somebody Else Says, 'even Though We Have No Idea What This Person Would Want In This Circumstance In Which They Cannot Themselves Tell Us What They Want, A 'rational' Person - Meaning, Myself - In That Circumstance Would Want To Die.' So You Move Very Quickly From So-called Voluntary Euthanasia To Involuntary Euthanasia. These Legal And Medical Developments Are Not Simply Hypothetical They're In The Courts Right Now.

We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest, As We Stand Guard At The Entrance Gates And The Exit Gates Of Life, And At Every Step Along Way Of Life, Bearing Witness In Word And Deed To The Dignity Of The Human Person-of Every Human Person.