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The official teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 oppose all forms of abortion procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy a zygote, blastocyst, embryo or fetus, since it holds that "human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.
John Paul II addressed the accusation that the Catholic Church was "actually promoting abortion, because she obstinately continues to teach the moral unlawfulness of contraception" – this critique also asserted that "contraception, if made safe and available to all, is the most effective remedy against abortion." [13]
After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an "original unity between man and women", [66] purity of heart (on the Sermon on the Mount), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humanae vitae ...
The expression "culture of life" entered popular parlance from Pope John Paul II in the 1990s. [9] [10] He used the term in his 1991 encyclical Centesimus annus, [35] and then more fully expanded upon it in the 1995 encyclical Evangelium vitae ("Gospel of Life"):
Pope John Paul II in Poland in 1979. A contemporary example seen by many as of a sign of contradiction is Pope John Paul II. [9] His defense of life and the human embryo through unprecedented teachings on abortion, euthanasia, and murder as grave sins in the Encyclical Evangelium Vitae, was seen as a sign of contradiction. [10]
John Paul II's defense of teachings of the Catholic Church regarding gender roles, sexuality, euthanasia, artificial contraception and abortion came under criticism. Some Christian feminists challenged views of his on the role of women in society, including the ordination of women. However, John Paul was being consistent with Catholic teaching.
Abortion was condemned by the Church as early as the first century, again in the fourteenth century and again in 1995 with Pope John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae (Gospel of Life). [184] This encyclical condemned the " culture of death " which the pope often used to describe the societal embrace of contraception , abortion , euthanasia ...
Pope John Paul II. Letter to Women is a pastoral letter written by Pope John Paul II to all women, and deals with the rights and dignity of women, the many challenges that women in the modern era have had to face, and ways in which the cause of woman could be forwarded in the world.