This international spiritual leader affirms the wondrous sanctity of life.
"...at the origin of every human being there is not something haphazard or chance, but a loving plan of God."
Pope Benedict XVI in Valencia, Spain July 9, 2006. (1)
Pope Benedict thus affirms that each of us is individually created not as the result of coincidence, but as a loving creation of our God.
"God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person.
In each one God sees His Image and Likeness.
Human life is a manifestation of God and His Glory." (2)
Benedict speaks of the eternal truth that our Loving Creator God does not differentiate life stages in the life of each person as being of lesser or more importance.
Each life stage is important, because the person who is growing through those life stages is unique.
We - each of us - whatever gender, age, life stage, culture, health status, ability or disability status, intellectual quotient, are equally precious to God.
"They are the truths which alone can can guarantee respect for the inalienable dignity and rights of each man, woman and child in our world - including the most defenceless of all human beings, the unborn child in the mother's womb." Benedict XVI in Yankee Stadium, April 20 2008 (3)
Benedict speaks about the dignity and rights of each human being, including the most vulnerable in human society.
The miracle of life
A baby recently reached out from the womb to hold her delivery doctor's hand during the caesarean section to deliver her.
See link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A04_CEQrPJs (4)
(1.) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2006/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20060709_valencia_en.html
(2.)http://inclineyourheart.blogspot.ie/2012/01/human-life-is-manifestation-of-god-and.html
(3.) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20080420_yankee-stadium- ny_en.html
(4) With thanks to Youtube and UpdateNews13
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