- Section 1: "The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message."
- Section 2: "The Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel of the dignity of the person and the Gospel of life are a single and indivisible Gospel."
- Section 3: "In addition to the ancient scourges of poverty, hunger, endemic diseases, violence and war, new threats are emerging on an alarmingly vast scale."
- Section 4: "Choices once unanimously considered criminal and rejected by the common moral sense are gradually becoming socially acceptable."
- Section 5: "...a precise and vigorous reaffirmation of the value of human life and its inviolability..."
- Section 6: "...that a new culture of human life will be affirmed..."
- Section 7 : "...death which enters the world and casts its shadow of meaninglessness over man's entire existence."
- Section 8: "...today's tendency for people to refuse to accept responsibility for their brothers and sisters."
- Section 9: "...the paradoxical mystery of the merciful justice of God."
- Section 10: "The voice of the blood shed by men continues to cry out, from generation to generation, in ever new and different ways."
- Section 11: "...affecting life in its earliest and in its final stages..."
- Section 12: "...a veritable 'culture of death.'"
- Section 13: "...despite their differences of nature and moral gravity, contraception and abortion are often closely connected..."
- Section 14: "...various techniques of artificial reproduction...actually open the door to new threats against life."
- Section 15: "Threats which are no less serious hang over the incurably ill and the dying."
- Section 16: "Another present-day phenomenon, frequently used to justify threats and attacks against life, is the demographic question."
- Section 17: "...an objective 'conspiracy against life'".
- Section 18: "...in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed...the very right to life is being denied..."
- Section 19: "...the roots of this remarkable contradiction..."
- Section 20: "This view of freedom leads to a serious distortion of life in society."
- Section 21: "...the heart of the tragedy being experienced by modern man: the eclipse of the sense of God and of man..."
- Section 22: "By living 'as if God did not exist', man not only loses sight of the mystery of God, but also of the mystery of the world and the mystery of his own being."
- Section 23: "...the materialistic perspective..."
- Section 24: "...moral conscience, both individual and social..."
- Section 25 : "...the most powerful source of hope..."
- Section 26: "...positive signs at work in humanity's present situation."
- Section 27: "[Further] signs of hope..."
- Section 28: "grace and responsibility"
- Section 29: "...the responsibility of loving and serving, of defending and promoting human life."
- Section 30: "...the Gospel of life includes everything that human experience and reason tell us about the value of human life."
- Section 31: "The fullness of the Gospel message about life was prepared for in the Old Testament."
- Section 32: "...the Son of God proclaims to all who feel threatened and hindered that their lives too are a good to which the Father's love gives meaning and value."
- Section 33: "...the uncertainty of human life and the affirmation of its value."
- Section 34: "Why is life a good?"
- Section 35: "The divine origin of this spirit of life..."
- Section 36: "The plan of life given to the first Adam finds at last its fulfilment in Christ."
- Section 37: "...being begotten of God and sharing in the fullness of his love..."
- Section 38: "The dignity of this life is linked...to its destiny of fellowship with God in knowledge and love of him.
- Section 39: "...God brings together all the possibilities of life and opposes the powers of death arising from sin..."
- Section 40: "The sacredness of life gives rise to its inviolability."
- Section 41: "...the requirement to show reverence and love for every person and the life of every person."
- Section 42: "...specific responsibility towards the environment..."
- Section 43: "...the giving of life through procreation..."
- Section 44: "...awe and wonder at God's intervention in the life of a child in its mother's womb..."
- Section 45: "...indisputable recognition of the value of life from its very beginning."
- Section 46: "...anachronistic to expect biblical revelation to make express reference to present-day issues concerning respect for elderly and sick persons."
- Section 47: "...the absolute master of [life and death] is the Creator alone."
- Section 48: "It is thus the Law as a whole which fully protects human life."
- Section 49: "...to awaken hope for a new principle of life..."
- Section 50: "...by looking upon the one who was pierced, every person whose life is threatened encounters the sure hope of finding freedom and redemption."
- Section 51: "...to revere life, to love it and to foster it."
- Section 52: "The Gospel of life is both a great gift of God and an exacting task for humanity."
- Section 53: "'God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end'".
- Section 54: "'There are two ways, a way of life and a way of death...'"
- Section 55: "...the case of legitimate defence..."
- Section 56: "...the problem of the death penalty."
- Section 57: "...absolute inviolability of innocent human life..."
- Section 58: "...the acceptance of abortion in the popular mind, in behaviour and even in law itself..."
- Section 59: "...other people too who decide upon the death of the child in the womb."
- Section 60: "'...from the time that the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun.'"
- Section 61: "Sacred Scripture [and] the question of deliberate abortion..."
- Section 62: "...unanimity in the doctrinal and disciplinary tradition of the Church,"
- Section 63: "...use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation..."
- Section 64: "When the prevailing tendency is to value life only to the extent that it brings pleasure and well-being, suffering seems like an unbearable setback, something from which one must be freed at all costs."
- Section 65: "For a correct moral judgment on euthanasia, in the first place a clear definition is required."
- Section 66: "...euthanasia must be called a false mercy..."
- Section 67: "...the way of love and true mercy..."
- Section 68: "...the trend to demand a legal justification..."
- Section 69: "...two diametrically opposed tendencies..."
- Section 70: "At the basis of all these tendencies lies the ethical relativism..."
- Section 71: "...a need to recover the basic elements of a vision of the relationship between civil law and moral law..."
- Section 72: "...a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law."
- Section 73: "...conscientious objection..."
- Section 74: "...Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs..."
- Section 75: "...negative moral precepts..."
- Section 76: "...promote life actively..."
- Section 77: "...an absolute imperative to respect, love and promote the life of every brother and sister..."
- Section 78: "Evangelization is an all-embracing, progressive activity..."
- Section 79: "...an obligation to be at the service of life."
- Section 80: "...bring the Gospel of life to the heart of every man and woman..."
- Section 81: "...making clear all the consequences of this Gospel."
- Section 82: "...we must propose these truths constantly and courageously..."
- Section 83: "...a call to encounter, dialogue and solidarity."
- Section 84: "...celebrate the God of life..."
- Section 85: "...a Day for Life..."
- Section 86: "... the Gospel of life is to be celebrated above all in daily living..."
- Section 87: "...the service of charity..."
- Section 88: "Many are the means towards this end which need to be developed with skill and serious commitment."
- Section 89: "Agencies and centres of service to life..."
- Section 90: "...demands that the Gospel of life be implemented also by means of certain forms of social activity and commitment in the political field..."
- Section 91: "...the issue of population growth."
- Section 92: "...the family has a decisive responsibility."
- Section 93: "...the celebration which gives meaning to every other form of prayer and worship is found in the family's actual daily life together..."
- Section 94: "Special attention must be given to the elderly."
- Section 95: "... a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort...in support of life."
- Section 96: "...re-establish the essential connection between life and freedom."
- Section 97: "...the work of education..."
- Section 98: "...the courage to adopt a new life-style..."
- Section 99: "...a 'new feminism'."
- Section 100: "...a great prayer for life..."
- Section 101: "...the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good."
- Section 102: "...Mary's experience as the incomparable model of how life should be welcomed and cared for."
- Section 104: "...life is always at the centre of a great struggle between good and evil, between light and darkness."
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