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Inspiration to the pro-life movement, author of   Evangelium  Vitae, the Gospel of  Life.    Priest, evangelist, poet, playwright,  spokesman for the poor and the marginalized, defender of the faith,  peaceful liberator  of Eastern Europe from communism  - John Paul II was all those things. But we will  also remember him  for his staunch defence of human life from conception to natural death,  and for the alliances he forged across national and religious boundaries with people of good will in the pro-life and pro-family movements which enabled such coalitions to take on the culture of death forces dominating  the United Nations,  much of the media  and many political forums. I had the privilege of meeting Pope John Paul ll twice  in Rome  -  in 1995 at the World Pro-Life Congress and in 1996 after the UN Food and Agriculture Conference. A pro-life ecumenism is one of the Pope's lasting legacies  - we will never forget him.

 ELCOME POPE BENEDICT XVI

A new book written by Pope Benedict XVI before his ordination as the pontiff, takes to task European nations, which have legalized abortion.  In  "The Europe of Benedict, in the Crisis of Cultures,’’ the former cardinal highlighted the irony of countries which condemn infanticide "while becoming virtually insensitive to abortion: “Maybe because in abortion you don't see the face of who will be condemned and never see the light.  By allowing legal abortion you become blind to the right to life of another, the youngest and weakest who doesn't have a voice.''  The title refers to St. Benedict of Norcia, the patron saint of Europe.

As the homosexual movement  in western countries  commenced its battle for same-sex marriage, in   his  well-timed  2004  "Letter to the Bishops on the Collaboration of Men and Women", Cardinal Ratzinger wrote:  ".....The obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes has enormous consequences on a variety of levels. This theory of the human person intended to promote prospects for the equality of women through liberation from biological determinism, has in reality inspired ideologies which call into question the family in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent in a new model of polymorphous sexuality...."