Sources of Inspiration
The spirituality and mission of the Missionaries of the
Gospel of Life have been shaped profoundly by the teaching and
example of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta, both
of whom knew Fr. Frank Pavone personally.
| Pope John Paul II
"…There is no reason for the existence of a
resigned mentality that leads to maintaining that laws that are
contrary to the right to life -- laws that legalize abortion,
euthanasia, sterilization, and the planning of births with
methods contrary to life and the dignity of matrimony, present
an inevitability and are, in addition, virtually a social
necessity. On the contrary, they constitute a germ of corruption
of society and its fundamentals. Civil and moral conscience
cannot accept this false inevitability, just as it does not
accept the idea of the inevitability of wars and of inter-ethnic
exterminations." (Evangelium Vitae)
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Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“The greatest destroyer of
peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child,
a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother
herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own
child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”
(Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 3, 1994).
Click here to
read a message from Mother Teresa to Fr. Frank Pavone, M.E.V.
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