Two
U.S. bishops leading efforts to defend and promote marriage offered
their support for this year’s national March for Marriage and invited
their fellow bishops to do the same.
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Pope
Francis on April 25 stressed the need for bishops and priests to give a
“consistent witness” to Christian moral teaching, including the
lifelong nature of Christian marriage, and to teach these truths “with
great compassion.”
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Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.