Sir, The Gospel of Life calls clinics for sterilisation, abortion, and euthanasia structures of sin (E.V. 12). The Gospel of Life tries to put into action moral and spiritual resources to bring about an overturning of the situation, and a social and cultural recovery of the centrality of the human being and his or her innate dignity (E.V. 5).
The heart of the tragedy: the eclipse of the sense of God and of man ... when the sense of God is lost, there is a tendency to lose the sense of God is lost, there is a tendency to lose the sense of man, of his dignity and his life; in turn the systematic violation of the moral law, especially in the serious matter of respect for human life and its dignity, produces a kind of progressive darkening of the capacity to discern God's living and saving presence (E.V. 21). - Yours, etc.,
Augustinian Priory,
John's Lane,
Thomas Street,
Dublin 8.