Vatican City, Mar 4, 2016 / 16:26 pm
Cultural trends and hardened hearts can obscure the value of human life. But true virtues, compassion and beauty are the way for Christians to overcome this, Pope Francis in a recent talk at the Vatican.
"In our time, some cultural orientations no longer acknowledge the imprint of divine wisdom either in the created reality, or in mankind," the Pope said March 3.
"Human nature is thus reduced to mere matter that may be molded according to any design. Our humanity, however, is unique and so precious in God's eyes. For this reason, the first nature to protect, so that it may bear fruit, is our human nature itself."
The Pope spoke with participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The academy was founded in 1994 by St. John Paul II to defend human life from the perspective of Christian morals and Catholic teaching.