...and from St John Paul:

...on March 25th it will be the anniversary of his magnificent document Evangelium Vitae. There will be a special vigil of prayer in Rome  and we are all invited to pray, too...the threats to the sanctity of human life have grown horribly in recent years, along with the destruction of children's dignity and innocence, and the violation of the truth about marriage:  "sexuality too is depersonalized and exploited: from being the sign, place and language of love, that is, of the gift of self and acceptance of another, in all the other's richness as a person, it increasingly becomes the occasion and instrument for self-assertion and the selfish satisfaction of personal desires and instincts".