The Church teaches, "Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end.

5. Cf. A Carthusian, A Month with Mary, London: Burns and Oates, 1950. 6. Paul VI, The Month of Mary,1967. 7. This excerpt and the following thirty excerpts are taken from homilies of Saint ...