The family of man

In the name of God: Respect, protect, love and serve life, every human life! Only in this direction will you find justice, development, true freedom, peace and happiness. (Evangelium Vitae) 

The family structure is the most basic of human systems, and functions within the societal milieu with all the adaptive advantages of a multi-cellular organism as opposed to a single-cell organism. And yet how broken and weak so many of our families are! 

How can we put some spine back into our family structures, to preserve the wisdom, support, and love that is meant to nurture and guide the individual members? 

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You Are A Marvel

When will we also teach them what they are?

We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are?  You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? 

You must work - we must all work - to make the world worthy of its children.

By Pablo Casals, virtuoso cellist
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America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. … It has portrayed the greatest of gifts – a child – as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

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You are a human being first, and those human connections with spouses, with children, with friends, are the most important investments you will ever make. (Barbara Bush)