Pope Benedict XVI Warns of the 'Eclipse of the Meaning of Life'

By Deacon Keith Fournier
3/1/2011
Catholic Online

The human person is not an it - but an I - some-one who must never be treated as an object

In his words to the Pontifical Academy for Life the Pope acknowledged the threats arising out of what he referred to as the "Eclipse of the Meaning of Life." However, he did so in order to charge the members, and all of the faithful, to shine the light of truth on the horizon of human culture and build a new Culture of Life and Civilization of Love. the rest

The Holy Father continued, "Moral conscience has the duty to discern good from evil in the various situations of life so that, on the basis of this judgment, human beings can freely orient themselves towards what is good." He asked that the members explain "to people who would deny the existence of moral conscience in man, reducing its voice to the result of external conditioning or to a purely emotive phenomenon" that the "moral nature of human action is not an extrinsic or optional value, nor is a prerogative only of Christians and believers; rather, it unites all mankind".