30 years of biography of Eve Angelium: The visual intuition of John Paul II

Durota Abdullah – Vatikan City

It has been thirty years since the publication Carta Encyclica Gospel of LifeThe church education column on the sanctity of human life. How did you inspire this document and continue to inspire the church? Is it still a reference point today?

Evangelium Vitae (EV) is a Christian teaching pillar on inalienable value for all human life. Saint John Paul II expected that the very dangerous forms of violating the life of the weaker, among the young, of fragile, were not more than expressing the idea of ​​harmful freedom of freedom, which turned crime into the law, which obscures a person’s ability to understand that freedom is when he knows how to bear the responsibility of the brother who has the next. It is not a coincidence to open the facilities with the question of God Cain: “What did you do?”

Even today, the echo of this question in the current teaching, from Evangelii Gaudium to the infinite Dignits: The very dangerous forms of violation of human life have not diminished, on the contrary, and the church wants more than ever to reaffirm the value of life and form a conscience in understanding this value, which does not mean only “not killing” the love of God.

This is the reason why the infinite Dignites update the EV message: not only explains the reason for respecting human dignity always, from the concept to natural death, but it has expanded our view of social situations, regarding the wars that we seem to no longer see in its new enforcement formations, in the event of its collapse, in new enforcement formations, in the event of its formation, in the event of its formation, in the evaluation, in the evaluation. Women and children, in sexual assault also through the digital world, who destroy and destroy the lives of thousands of families. I remember that the value of life is not only a Catholic value, but it lies, universal, belonging to humans in this way, and everyone can understand and share it. It is not available, that is, no one can get it, not even those who own it. Today we are fighting to understand this in a world full of relativity, which translates into unfair laws often, which we have in relation to the fact that human life is actually good. We already know that this confusion, in one way or another, is manifested in all cultures, all over the world.

Are there tangible proposals and methods that the churches can propose a biography message?

The re -reading of the encyclopedia is definitely alongside Dignites Infinite, who reaffirm EV, opens a door for hope, which we need: life overcomes, and this is what the Bible teaches. But you have to form pronouns so that people can take “life options”: abortion, compassionate killing, violence, ignore the culture that you perform, and not only for those who suffer from it, huge suffering.

This is the reason that the time has come to try to build a real pastoral for human life in diocese and diocese, and the training of pastoral agents, teachers, teachers, fathers and young people regarding life. We should not impose standards, but to transfer values, and know how to discuss them in reality, but also showed them in their impressive beauty. How important is this that today’s youth test the service in life, the gift of their time for the needy: only then they feel that they are useful, discover the meaning of their lives, then the profession or call for a profession that becomes a service of life. We also have to train priests in the future, in seminars, then: even young people and families towards the truth and know very well how to guide you; This training today is missing in the need to accompany the world.

This is why Dicastery was published yesterday, on the eve of the anniversary of EV, which is pastoral support entitled “Life is always good”, with suggestions for the churches designated to start operations and build in human life. There are initiatives here and there, but they are often random and cross. Permanent work schedules for planning for a tangible and permanent commitment must be created to form believers in protecting and enhancing a person’s life and dignity. For us, as a church, this anniversary is not merely suitable for celebration, but it must be an opportunity to work for the ecclesiastical work in favor of life.

How will Dicas supply churches be accompanied by applying this support and in human life?

In the coming months, we will start with meetings with a family and offices of life in episcopal conferences all over the world, so that they are accompanied in the implementation of planning and structure in the diocese of the pastoral life. With the way of distinguishing the synod, each of them can work from cultural and social reality and determine priorities in issues, training methods and pastoral work. Therefore, the support we propose, which can be found on the Dicasterio website, does not deepen individual issues about life, which teaching has been treated widely, but this time it suggests a Sinodal way to distinguish so that “culture for life” becomes a permanent concern to know how to always welcome life.

Among other things, this work is nothing more than another application for the global agreement of the family, which provides for cooperation between Catholic universities – which have research and training institutes for family and life – in order to train secularists in accordance with pastoral priorities and the needs of private churches.