The witness to the infinite value and dignity of every human life from conception to natural death must continue in our society, writes Adelaide Archdiocese’s Vicar General, Fr Dean Marin. Source: The Southern Cross.Â
An estimated 4000 people attended the annual Walk for Life in the gardens adjacent to Adelaide Oval on Saturday, February 7.
Once again there was a sea of white, with adults, young people and children with white shirts, dresses and balloons.
The crowd was larger than the previous year, according to organisers, and it was good to see numbers from our parishes continually growing.
Once again all witnessed peacefully and prayerfully to the infinite value of every human life from the earliest time in the mother’s womb.
It was quoted that there were approximately 5000 human lives lost through abortion in South Australia last year, and also that 79 of those were in the third trimester, meaning that they would have been able to survive outside the womb.
This was named an evil in the rightful understanding of evil as the lack of goodness, but again this year, the Walk for Life’s focus was not on judgment and condemnation but on the love and mercy of God available to all.
The witness to the infinite value and dignity of every human life from conception to natural death must continue in our society. We mustn’t be tempted to be silent, thinking that these are religious issues and hence we have no right to speak about them in the public sphere.
Yes, our faith confirms our stance, but these are essentially moral issues of human life that call into question the future of a society that is severely narrowed and inward-looking if its greatest asset, human life, is not cherished.
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Witnessing infinite value of human life (By Fr Dean Marin, The Southern Cross)
