Blessed John Paul II cautioned against the advances of a “culture of death” in our day and called for countering it by building up a “culture of life”. These were terms which he employed in his great 1995 encyclical The Gospel of Life, and they were such powerful constructs that they soon entered into the very language of contemporary public debate. The Catholic Church is at the forefront of the struggle against a culture of death raising her voice against direct assaults against human life such as abortion and euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research and the use of embryonic human beings for research. Read this artcle here: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=1568
