RESPECT FOR LIFE: PRIORITY IN LATIN AMERICA, STATES CARDINAL LOPEZ TRUJILLO

San Jose, 9 (NE) "The matter of the right to and respect for life for the poorest and most innocent," is one of the present priorities for Latin America, stated Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family. In a declaration to the La Nacion newspaper in Costa Rica, the Cardinal stressed the need to forge a "culture of peace that becomes a culture for family, for life, because it is there where we find the greatest threats and challenges."

Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, who is visiting this country for the First Social Week, recalled that the theme of life has "great importance today and influences the right of peoples to be sovereign, not to be manipulated, for example, in the conditions for a radical control of population that some determined world powers want to impose."

He also commented on the phenomenon of globalization, stating that "the Pope recalls that we cannot enclose ourselves in a merely economic globalization. There are ethical values that cannot be forgotten. If we do, we would pass through moments of historical shame." He also emphasized some aspects of the Social Doctrine of the Church, stating that "we have new questions today which the Social Doctrine of the Church must answer. There was a series of fundamental answers to opposing ideological currents before. That problem is not over yet, but the advance of rich peoples that aren't solidary with poor peoples grows."

The Vatican Cardinal stated the need to know the Social Doctrine of the Church, as well as the importance of sufficiently preparing the world of leaders in social doctrine and integral humanism, "because they are well formed in technical matters, but very badly formed in true humanism."

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