Rorate Caeli

Francis: defend life from the mother's womb to old age

In a particular way, faced with the culture of waste, that relativizes the value of human life, parents are called to pass on to their children the understanding that this must always be defended, already in the mother's womb, recognizing in it a gift from God and an assurance of mankind's future, but also in the care shown to the elderly, particularly to grandparents, who are the living memory of a people and the transmitters of life's wisdom.
Franciscus
Letter to Brazilian families for National Family Week
August 6, 2013

[Source: Conference of Bishops, in Port.; tip: il Sismografo]