VATICAN CITY, MAR 7, 2001 (VIS) - Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life participated last week at the Vatican in their General Assembly, on the theme: "The Culture of Life: Foundations and Dimensions."
During their meetings, participants emphasized the urgent need for society, and youth in particular, to recover the fundamental conviction that life is a gift, thus recovering the creationist concept and vision of life. Another point of discussion was human corporeality: Academy members reaffirmed that the body is not an object, but rather belongs to personal subjectivity. "The recovery of the dignity of the body as 'subject', and not simply material 'object', forms the logical consequence of the biblical concept of the person," the Holy Father said in his discourse last Saturday to the members of the Pontifical Academy.
The family was also highlighted as the place where human life receives its first welcome, its first protection. In addition, participants addressed the topic of ecology, affirming that what has been entrusted to man is not only to be used but also protected through a responsible guardianship of the environment.
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