The Vatican has published a new book of Pope Benedict XVI’s addresses. Consisting of three separate works spanning from 1992 to 2005 and only 150 pages long, Benedict even goes into the question of whether or not the Church should accept abortion:
‘Why don’t we resign ourselves to the fact that we lost that battle and dedicate our energies instead to projects where we can find greater social consensus?’ he writes.
Because this, he says, would be a superficial and hypocritical solution.
‘Recognizing the sacred nature of human life and its inviolability without any exceptions is not a small problem or something that can be considered part of the pluralism of opinions in modern society,’ he writes.
‘There is no such thing as ‘small murders’. Respect for every single life is an essential condition for anything worthy of being called social life.’
He is absolutely correct. There can be no respect for society if there is no respect for individuals, which is why abortion and euthanasia only signify worse things to come for the future of society.