Catholic Church's Views On The Right To Life

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The right to life is a moral principle that believes that all human beings have the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another human being. The Catholic Church strongly believes in this principle and believes that no one should be able to take life, as it is written in the 5th commandment “You shall not kill”. The Catholic Church also believes that all human life, catholic or not, is sacred because it is God that created human life and therefore only the “Creator” can end human life. Catholics believe that other humans cannot under any circumstances claim the right to destroy a human life. This theme, right to life, can be seen in the 2007 American comedy-drama, independent film, Juno. The topics that will be addressed are the Catholic …show more content…

These relationships have four categories. These four categories are family, friends, casual and romantic. Through the eyes of the Catholic Church, it is taught that all relationships are acceptable in the Church with a few exceptions. The Church believes that when you reach a certain age it is acceptable to have a romantic relationship, but there must be no sexual activity before marriage and the relationship must be between the opposite sexes to have sexual activity after marriage. This is so that even if the current relationship has failed, you still remain pure and you can truly give your body and soul after marriage to the right person, this is also because when getting married you have committed yourself to the other person and now you are in a three-way relationship between your partner, God and yourself. Most people think that the Church is against gay relationships, this is not true, what the Church is against is sexual activity between gay people. This is because sex between the same sexes is not procreative and therefore it cannot create

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