Sins against the Gospel of Life don’t always take the form of the grave ones like abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, or the manipulation of embryonic life. It also includes more common ones such as the objectification of persons, the use of pornography, and other sins against purity, which also violate the dignity of man made in the image and likeness of God.
Read MoreIn the Gospel today, Our Lord gives us yet another reason why we must defend the fundamental right to life of the unborn when He said: “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”
Read MoreIn today’s Second Reading, St. James says that being faithful to religion, pure and undefiled, means caring for the weak and keeping oneself unstained by the world. Indeed James teaches that the most repulsive act is to fail to put the words of the Gospel into practice.
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