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$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Jesus\u2019 promise of \u201clife to the full\u201d is especially poignant today, when our culture and sometimes our government promote values inimical to the happiness and true good of individuals and society. We face increasing attempts to expunge God and religious discourse from public life. This promotes the dangerous proposition that human beings enjoy no special status by virtue of their God-given humanity. Some now even seek to eliminate religiously motivated people and organizations from public programs, by forcing them to violate their moral and religious convictions or stop serving the needy.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

The founders of our nation understood that religion and morality are essential to the survival of a freedom-loving society. John Adams expressed this conviction, stating: \u201cWe have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catholics must not shrink from the obligation to assert the values and principles we hold essential to the common good, beginning with the right to life of every human being and the right of every woman and man to express and live by his or her religious beliefs and well-formed conscience.<\/p>\n

As Pope Benedict XVI reminded us last year in one of his Ad Limina addresses to visiting bishops, \u201ca society can be built only by tirelessly respecting, promoting and teaching the transcendent nature of the human person.\u201d That common nature transcends all accidental differences of age, race, strength, or conditions of dependency, preparing us to be one human family under God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, in statement on Respect Life Month<\/p>\n

Read it all. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"