Tag: Pro-life
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Pope Francis’s Challenge to All Christians: End the Death Penalty
by Jim Forest It never ceases to amaze me that many of those who describe themselves as “pro-life” are, when it comes to capital punishment, passionate supporters of death as a method of improving the world. Most notably in America, not a few of those who wear a symbol of an earlier method of execution, […]
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The Ecumenism of the Pro-Life Movement
by Fr. James Martin, SJ | ελληνικά | ру́сский | српски One of the most effective collaborations among the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions in the United States has been the pro-life movement, which for more than 40 years has sought to give witness to the Christian confession that all life is sacred, including life in the […]
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Pro-Life Means Pro-Social Justice
by Fr. James Martin, SJ | ру́сский I am pro-life. That means that I’m also pro-social justice. That means that I am not only for the dignity of the human being from the moment of conception, but also for the dignity of the human being until the natural end of life. For life does not […]