Pope Francis affirmed that the absolute dignity of human life does not admit “concessions or mediations,” in his message to the participants of the national march “Let us choose life” this Saturday, June 22 in Rome (Italy).
According to reports Vatican Newsthe Holy Father sent a message to the thousands of participants in the march that seeks to defend and promote human life – in the face of the threats of abortion, euthanasia and manipulation of embryos – in which 130 organizations participated.
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In his message, the Holy Father thanked those who are willing to give “public testimony in defense of human life from conception to natural death” and encouraged them to “continue courageously despite all adversity.”
“What is at stake, that is, the absolute dignity of human life, a gift from God the Creator, is too high to be the object of concessions or mediation,” Pope Francis stressed.
The National March for Life 2024 in Italy
The march departs at 2:00 p.m. (local time) from the Plaza de la República to reach the Imperial Forums along the Via Cavour, at the Altar of the Fatherland.
On the stages set up at the beginning and end of the march, there will be testimonies from families who have embraced life in the midst of difficulties; and the event’s spokespersons, Massimo Gandolfini and Maria Rachele Ruiu, will give their respective speeches.
“This event wants to be a clear contrast to the culture of death as Saint John Paul II called it and the throwaway culture as Pope Francis calls it, and at the same time it wants to be a strong promotion of the beauty of being open to life, so it will be a festive procession,” says Gandolfini, who works as a neurosurgeon in Brescia.
The spokesperson also referred to the recent document of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Infinite dignityand highlighted that “the dignity of life is infinite and does not need any other attribution, because every living being, from conception to natural death, is a bearer of human dignity and as such must be recognized and respected.”
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.