"Called to Eternal Life": Babies and Rights

Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.

Dr. J's favorite quote:
Our culture rejects, for the most part, the best and most exalted way in whichchildren should come among us. Thus, we have a society filled withpeople who have not known what was naturally due to them. That is, eachchild is to be born in a home in which each child has a father and a mother whobegot him and accepted him in love and generosity as a gift they did not plan ordevise. The actual child was not even in the thoughts of parents, whoseattention was on each other. Yet, they were prepared and happy to accept thattheir relation naturally led to something beyond themselves, something seen inthe faces of their own children.

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