Evangelium Vitae
Encyclical Letter
Addressed by the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II
to the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious,
Lay Faithful, and All People of Good Will
ON THE VALUE AND INVIOLABILITY OF HUMAN LIFE
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Present Day Threats to Human
Life
The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the
ground.
Chapter 2: The Christian Message Concerning
Life
I came that they may have life.
Chapter 3: God's Holy Law
You shall not kill.
Chapter 4: For a New Culture of Human Life
You did it to me.
Conclusion
Endnotes
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 25 March, the Solemnity
of the Annunciation of the Lord, in the year 1995, the seventeenth
of my Pontificate. |
