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  1. The expression Gospel of life is not found as such in Sacred Scripture. But it does correspond to an essential dimension of the biblical message.
  2. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 22.
  3. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis (4 March1979), 10: AAS 71 (1979), 275.
  4. Cf. ibid., 14.
  5. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 27.
  6. Cf. Letter to all my Brothers in the Episcopate regarding the "Gospel of Life" (19 May 1991): Insegnamenti XIV, 1 (1991), 1293-1296.
  7. Ibid., loc. cit., p. 1294.
  8. Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane (2 February 19.94), 4: AAS 86 (1994) 871.
  9. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May 1991), 39 AAS 83 (1991), 842.
  10. No. 2259.
  11. Cf. SAINT AMBROSE, De Noe, 26:94-96: CSEL 32, 480-481.
  12. Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nos. 1867 and 2268.
  13. De Cain et Abel, II, 10, 38: CSEL, 32, 408.
  14. Cf. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae: AAS 80 (1988), 70-102.
  15. Address during the Prayer Vigil for the Eighth World Youth Day, Denver, 14 August 1993, II, 3: AAS 86 (1994), 419.
  16. JOHN PAUL II, Address to the Participants at the Study Conference on "The Right to Life and Europe", 18 December 1987: Insegnamenti, X, 3 (1987), 1446-1447.
  17. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 36.
  18. Cf. ibid., 16.
  19. Cf. SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT, Moralia in Job, 13, 23: CCL 143A,683.
  20. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis (4 March 1979) 10: AAS 71 (1979), 274.
  21. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 50.
  22. Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum, 4.
  23. "Gloria Dei vivens homo": Adversus Haereses, IV, 20, 7: SCh100/2, 648-649.
  24. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 12.
  25. Confessions, I, 1: CCL 27, 1.
  26. Exameron, VI, 75-76: CSEL 32, 260-261.
  27. "Vita autem hominis visio Dei": Adversus Haereses, IV, 20, 7: SCh 100/2, 648- 649.
  28. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May1991), 38: AAS 83 (1991), 840-841.
  29. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (30December 1987), 34: AAS 80 (1988), 560.
  30. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 50.
  31. Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane(2 February 1994), 9 AAS86 (1994), 878; cf. PIUS XII, Encyclical Letter Humani Generis (12August 1950): AAS 42 (1950), 574.
  32. "Animas enim a Deo immediate creari catholica fides nos retinereiubet": PIUS XII, Encyclical Letter Humani Generis (12 August1950): AAS 42 (1950), 575.
  33. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 50; cf. JOHN PAUL II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio (22November 1981), 28: AAS 74 (1982), 114.
  34. Homilies, II, 1; CCSG 3, 39.
  35. See, for example, Psalms 22:10-11; 71:6; 139: 14.
  36. Expositio Evangelii Secundum Lucam, II, 22-23: CCL, 14, 40-41.
  37. SAINT IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH, Letter to the Ephesians, 7, 2:Patres Apostolici, ed. F.X. Funk, II, 82.
  38. De Hominis Opificio, 4: PG 44, 136.
  39. Cf. SAINT JOHN DAMASCENE, De Fide Orthodoxa, 2, 12: PG 94,920.922, quoted in SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiae, I-II, Prologue.
  40. PAUL VI, Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae (25 July 1968), 13:AAS 60 (1968), 489.
  41. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae (22 February 1987), Introduction, No. 5: AAS 80 (1988), 76-77; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2258.
  42. Didache, I, 1; II, 1-2; V, 1 and 3: Patres Apostolici, ed.F.X. Funk, I, 2-3, 6-9, 14-17; cf. Letter of Pseudo-Barnabas, XIX, 5: loc. cit., 90-93.
  43. Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nos. 2263-2269; cf. also Catechism of the Council of Trent III, #327-332.
  44. Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2265.
  45. Cf. SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiae, II-II, q. 64, a. 7; SAINT ALPHONSUS DE LIGUORI, Theologia Moralis, 1. III, tr. 4, c. 1,dub. 3.
  46. Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2266.
  47. Cf. ibid.
  48. No. 2267.
  49. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 12.
  50. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 27.
  51. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 25.
  52. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Euthanasia Iura et Bona (5 May 1980), II: AAS 72 (1980), 546.
  53. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor (6 August1993), 96: AAS 85 (1993), 1209.
  54. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 51: "Abortus necnon infanticidium nefanda sunt crimina".
  55. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem (15August 1988), 14: AAS 80 (1988), 1686.
  56. NO 21: AAS 86 (1994), 92.
  57. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Procured Abortion (18 November 1974), NOS. 12-13: AAS 66 (1974),738.
  58. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae (22 February 1987), I, No. 1: AAS 80 (1988), 78-79.
  59. Ibid., loc. cit., 79.
  60. Hence the Prophet Jeremiah: "The word of the Lord came to me saying: 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations"' (1:4-5). The Psalmist, for his part, addresses the Lord in these words: "Upon you I have leaned from my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb" (Ps 71:6; cf. Is 46:3; Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-11). So too the Evangelist Luke in the magnificent episode of the meeting of the two mothers, Elizabeth and Mary, and their two sons, John the Baptist and Jesus, still hidden in their mothers' wombs (cf. 1:39-45) emphasizes how even before their birth the two little ones are able to communicate: the child recognizes the coming of the Child and leaps for joy.
  61. Cf. Declaration on Procured Abortion (18 November 1974), No. 7: AAS 66 (1974), 740-747.
  62. "You shall not kill a child by abortion nor shall you kill it once it is born": V, 2: Patres Apostolici, ed. F.X. Funk, I, 17.
  63. Apologia on behalf of the Christians, 35: PG 6, 969.
  64. Apologeticum, IX, 8: CSEL 69, 24.
  65. Cf. Encyclical Letter Casti Connubii (31 December 1930), 1:AAS 22 (1930), 562-592.
  66. Address to the Biomedical Association "San Luca" (12 November1944): Discorsi e Radiomessaggi, VI (1944-1945), 191; cf. Address to the Italian Catholic Union of Midwives (29 October 1951), No. 2: AAS 43 (1951), 838.
  67. Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra (15 May 1961), 3: AAS 53(1961), 447.
  68. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 51.
  69. Canon 2350,1.
  70. Cole of Canon Law, canon 1398; cf. Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, canon 1450,2.
  71. Cf. ibid., Canon 1329; also Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, canon 1417.
  72. Cf. Address to the National Congress of Italian Jurists (9December 1972): AAS 64 (1972), 777; Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae (25 July 1968), 14: AAS 60 (1968), 490.
  73. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 25.
  74. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae (22 February 1987) I, 3: AAS 80 (1988), 80.
  75. Charter of the Rights of the Family (22 October 1983), article 4b: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1983.
  76. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Euthanasia Iura et Bona (5 May 1980), II: AAS 72 (1980) 546.
  77. Ibid., IV: loc cit., 551.
  78. Cf. ibid.
  79. PIUS XII, Address to an International Group of Physicians (24February 1957), III: AAS 49 (1957), 147; cf. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Euthanasia Iura et Bona, III: AAS 72 (1980), 547-548.
  80. Pius XII, Address to an International Group of Physicians (24February 1957), III: AAS 49 (1957), 145.
  81. Cf. Pius XII, Address to an International Group of Physicians, (24February 1957): loc. cit., 129-147; CONGREGATION OF THE HOLYOFFICE, Decretum de directa insontium occisione (2 December 1940): AAS 32 (1940), 553-554; PAUL VI, Message to French Television: "Every life is sacred" (27 January 1971): Insegnamenti IX (1971)57-58; Address to the International College of Surgeons (1 June 1972)AAS 64 (1972), 432-436; SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 27.
  82. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 25.
  83. Cf. SAINT AUGUSTINE, De Civitate Dei I, 20: CCL 47, 22; SAINTTHOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiae, II-II, q. 6, a. 5.
  84. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration On Euthanasia Iura et Bona (5 May 1980), I: AAS 72 (1980), 545;Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nos. 2281-2283.
  85. Ep. 204, 5: CSEL 57, 320.
  86. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 18.
  87. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris (11February 1984), 14-24: AAS 76 (1984), 214-234.
  88. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May1991), 46: AAS 83 (1991), 850; Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message (24 December 1944): AAS 37 (1945) 10-20.
  89. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor (6 August1993), 97 and 99: AAS 85 (1993), 1209-1211.
  90. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Instruction on Respect for Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae (22 February 1987), III: AAS 80 (1988), 98.
  91. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Declaration on Religious Freedom Dignitatis Humanae, 7.
  92. Cf. SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiae I-II, q. 96, a. 2.
  93. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Declaration on ReligiousFreedom Dignitatis Humanae, 7.
  94. Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris (11 April 1963), II; AAS 55(1963), 273-274. The internal quote is from Pius XII, Radio Message of Pentecost 1941 (1 June 1941): AAS 33 (1941), 200. On this topic, the Encyclical cites: Pius XI, Encyclical Letter Mit Brennender Sorge (14 March 1937): AAS 29 (1937), 159; Encyclical Letter Divini Redemptoris (19 March 1937), III: AAS 29 (1937), 79; Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message (24 December 1942): AAS 35 (1943),9-24.
  95. Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris (11 April 1963), II: loc. cit., 271.
  96. Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 93, a. 3, ad 2um.
  97. Ibid., 1-11, q. 95, a. 2. Aquinas quotes SAINT AUGUSTINE: "Nonvidetur esse lex, quae iusta non fuerit", De Libero Arbitrio, I, 5,11: PL 32. 1227.
  98. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Procured Abortion (18 November 1974), No. 22: AAS 66 (1974), 744.
  99. Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nos. 1755-1755; JOHN PAULII, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor (6 August 1993), 81-82:AAS 85 (1993), 1198-1199.
  100. In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus, 41, 10: CCL 36, 363; cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor (6 August 1993),13: AAS 85 (1993) 1144.
  101. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (8 December 1975),14: AAS 68 (1976), 13.
  102. Cf. Roman Missal, prayer of the celebrant before communion.
  103. Cf. SAINT IRENAEUS: "Omnem novitatem attulit, semetipsumafferens, qui fuerat annuntiatus", Adversus Haereses: IV, 34, 1:SCh 100/2, 846-847.
  104. Cf. SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, "Peccator inveterascit, recedens anovitate Christi", In Psalmos Davidis Lectura: 6, 5.
  105. De Beatitudinibus, Oratio VII: PG 44, 1280.
  106. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor (6August 1993), 116: AAS 85 (1993), 1224.
  107. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May1991), 37: AAS 83 (1991), 840.
  108. Cf. Message for Christmas 1967: AAS 60 (1968), 40.
  109. PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE, On the Divine Names, 6, 1-3:PG 3, 856-857.
  110. PAUL VI, Pensiero alla Morte, Istituto Paolo VI, Brescia 1988,24.
  111. JOHN PAUL II, Homily for the Beatification of Isidore Bakanja,Elisabetta Canori Mora and Gianna Beretta Molla (24 April 1994):L'Osservatore Romano, 25-26 April 1994, 5.
  112. Ibid.
  113. In Matthaeum, Hom. L. 3: PG 58, 508.
  114. Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2372.
  115. JOHN PAUL II, Address to the Fourth General Conference of Latin American Bishops in Santo Domingo (12 October 1992 ), No. 15: AAS85 (1993), 819.
  116. Cf. Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio, 12; Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 90.
  117. JOHN PAUL II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio (22 November 1981), 17: AAS 74 (1982), 100.
  118. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution onthe Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 50.
  119. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May 1991),39 AAS 83 (1991), 842.
  120. JOHN PAUL II, Address to Participants in the Seventh Symposium of European Bishops, on the theme of "Contemporary Attitudes towards Life and Death: a Challenge for Evangelization" (17 October 1989), No. 5: Insegnamenti XII, 2 (1989), 945. Children are presented in the Biblical tradition precisely as God's gift (cf. Ps 127:3) and as a sign of his blessing on those who walk in his ways (cf. Ps 1283-4).
  121. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (30December 1987), 38: AAS 80 (1988), 565-566.
  122. JOHN PAUL II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio (22 November 1981), 86: AAS 74 (1982), 188.
  123. PAUL VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (8 December1975), 18: AAS 68 (1976), 17.
  124. Cf. ibid., 20: loc. cit, 18.
  125. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 24.
  126. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May1991), 17: AAS 83 (1991), 814; Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor (6 August 1993), 95-101: AAS 85 (1993), 1208-1213.
  127. JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May 1991), 24: AAS 83 (1991), 822.
  128. JOHN PAUL II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio (22 November 1981), 37 AAS 74 (1982), 128.
  129. Letter establishing the World Day of the Sick (13 May 1992) No. 2 Insegnamenti XV, 1 (1992), 1410.
  130. Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 35; PAUL VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (26 March 1967), 15: AAS 59 (1967), 265.
  131. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane (2February 1994), 13: AAS 86 (1994), 892.
  132. JOHN PAUL II, motu proprio Vitae Mysterium (11 February 1994), 4: AAS 86 (1994), 386-387.
  133. Closing Messages of the Council (8 December 1965): To Women.
  134. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem (15 August1988), 18: AAS 80 (1988), 1696.
  135. Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane(2February 1994), 5: AAS 86 (1994), 872.
  136. JOHN PAUL II, Address to Participants in the Study Conference on "The Right to Life in Europe" (18 December 1987): Insegnamenti X, 3( 1987), 1446.
  137. Message for the 1977 World Day of Peace: AAS 68 (1976),711-712.
  138. BLESSED GUERRIC OF IGNY, In Assumptione B. Mariae, Sermo 1, 2:PL 185, 188.
  139. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 5.
  140. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 22.
  141. Roman Missal, Sequence for Easter Sunday.
  142. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 68.

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