Life Issues Forum - Welcome and Protect Life
By Deirdre A. McQuade
On the eve of World Youth Day 2016 in Poland, Pope Francis gave a beautiful address. . . urging leaders to support the family, the "primary and fundamental cell of society." Specifically, he urged them to welcome and protect human life in all its stages: "Life must always be welcomed and protected. These two things go together—welcome and protection, from conception to natural death."