Even as we prepare to celebrate of the birth of Christ, we are living in a culture of death, which discourages birth. It sees people not as gifts from God but as the cause of "over-population." It views children not as joys but as burdens and attacks on our freedom. Our culture of death makes contraception and abortion its virtues, and conception and giving birth its sins.

These judgments by those espousing the culture of death are based on preconceived ideas about independence, life-style, individualism, and privacy. Those promoting the culture of death are trying to design the world according to these unfounded, purely subjective notions. However, "the Lord, the Creator of the heavens, Who is God, the Designer and Maker of the earth Who established it," disagrees with the death-culture's design for the earth (Is 45:18). He has not designed "it to be a waste" but designed "it to be lived in" (Is 45:18). He is "the Lord, and there is no other" (Is 45:18). He alone created and redeemed the earth. There is no other authority in charge of the earth. Therefore, obey the Lord's command: "Turn to Me and be safe, all you ends of the earth, for I am God; there is no other!" (Is 45:22)

How can a contraceptive, abortifacient culture rejoice in a birth? Repent! Choose life! (Dt 30:19)

Nihil Obstat:  Reverend Robert J. Buschmiller, June 11, 1998

Imprimatur:  †Most Reverend Carl K. Moeddel, Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, July 20, 1998