The Pro-Life Activities Division of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers its June 2003 issue of "Word of Life", giving sample intercessions and bulletin announcements for Sunday Mass in both Spanish and English.
Particularly, among the fundamental rights of man, the Catholic Church claims for every human being the right to life as the primary right. She does it in the name of the truth about man and to protect his freedom that cannot be sustained without respect for the right to life. The Church affirms the right to life of every innocent human being and at every moment of his existence.
-- Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Life (February 27, 2002)
Truth and solidarity are necessary if humanity is to succeed in building a culture of life, a civilization of love, a world of peace.
-- John Paul II, address to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, March 25, 2003, in reference to World Communications Day, June 1, 2003 Judiciary Committee
The church respects and supports scientific research when it has a genuinely humanist orientation, avoiding any form of instrumentalization or destruction of the human being and keeping itself free from the slavery of political and economic interests.
-- John Paul II, address on Biomedical Research: Benefits, Limits of Science, February 24, 2003
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