A poverty in U.S. is 'its disregard of dignity of life,' says bishop

Published: 2005-10-03

FARGO, N.D. (CNS) -- A poverty of the United States is "its approach to life and its disregard of the dignity of life," Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo said Oct. 2 during a Mass for Respect Life Sunday at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Fargo. Terrorism, suicide bombings, euthanasia and capital punishment are all "attacks on the dignity of human life, on the understanding of the human person as created in the image and likeness of God," Bishop Aquila said. The gravest of these attacks, he added, "is abortion itself." Bishop Aquila said it is God who bestows dignity upon each human person, even those some may refer to as "mistakes," although "the eye of God does not see it that way," he noted. The primary struggle throughout history has been "between the culture of life and the culture of death," Bishop Aquila said. "We must speak more forcefully for the culture of life."

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