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Vatican City, May 30, 2015 \/ 09:20 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- A civilization whose technological advancements do not seek to protect the most vulnerable, from conception until natural death, fails to live up to its responsibility, Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n

\tIn remarks made during an audience at the Vatican with members of the Italian Associazione Scienza & Vita (Science and Life Association), the pontiff decried victims of abortion and euthanasia, migrants left to die on the sea, and other travesties.<\/p>\n

\tProgress in civilization is not measured by its advancements in technology, but \u201cits capacity to protect life, especially during the most fragile stages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe scourge of abortion is an attack against life. Leaving our brothers on boats to die in the Sicilian channel is an attack against life. Death in the workplace, because the minimum safety conditions are not followed, is an attack against life. Death from malnutrition is an attack against life. Terrorism, war, violence; but also euthanasia are attacks against life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope\u2019s remarks come one day after nearly 750 migrants were rescued off the coast of Sicily, according to the Italian coast guard. Around 1,800 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean over the last five months, with some 60,000 having attempted the journey, the United Nations estimates.<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis also encouraged those present at the audience to engage with the scientific community.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cDo not be afraid of embarking on a fruitful dialogue with the world of science, even with those who, while not believers, remain open to the mystery of human life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tLife, Pope Francis said, \u201coriginates and accompanies all scientific progress; it is the miracle of life which always undermines some sort of scientific presumption, giving primacy to wonder and beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe told them not to lose sight of the \u201csacredness of every human person, in order that science may truly be at the service of man,\u201d and not the other way around.<\/p>\n

\tScience and Life Association, which is comprised of professionals in fields such as science, culture, and politics, met with the Pope in the Vatican on Saturday to mark the 10th anniversary of their founding.<\/p>\n

\tScience has the ability to analyze specific details, Pope Francis said, which insures that \u201ca just society recognizes the right to life from conception to natural death as paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe protection and promotion of life represents a fundamental task, especially in a society marked by the negative logic of waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe pontiff observed that protecting the person involves encountering and sustaining those in need of protection, a responsibility which extends \u201cfrom the center toward the peripheries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAt the center, there is Christ,\u201d the Pope said, and it is from \u201cthis centrality that you are directed toward the various conditions of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe love of Christ pushes us to make ourselves servants of the little and the elderly, of every man and every woman, for whom the primordial right to live should be recognized and protected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cTherefore Christ, who is the light of man and the world, illuminates the way in order that science may always be knowledge in service of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis recognition of life\u2019s value, however, obligates us to consider how we make use of it, Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cLife is above all a gift,\u201d he said, and this creates hope and a future, so long as it is \u201cenlivened\u201d by familial and social relationships, which in turn \u201copen new perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cLoving life means to take care of the other, to love him, to cultivate and respect his transcendent dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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