Papa Francesco & Evangelium Vitae

I encourage everyone who has not done so yet to read this homily the Holy Father delivered last Sunday on "Evangelium Vitae Sunday." The tone is quite different from what we often hear from the pro-life movement here in the U.S., no? The Pope is inviting all of us to think about the Gift of Life as something very profound, and the challenge of protecting that gift as something that requires a deep commitment to the Lord, not just a legal fix. If nothing else, I find the Pope's comments persuasive, inviting, the kind of thing that may get people who do not agree with the Church's teachings on, say, abortion or euthansia or the death penalty, to think again and to think with greater charity.