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Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: 30 Years Ago (March 25), John Paul II Issued His Boldest Battle Cry for Life – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: 30 Years Ago (March 25), John Paul II Issued His Boldest Battle Cry for Life

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Pope St. John Paul II greets a child Sept. 16, 1998. (photo: Vatican Media / National Catholic Register)

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register, March 25, 2025

Father Raymond J. de Souza is the founding editor of Convivium magazine.

COMMENTARY: The message of the landmark encyclical, ‘Evangelium Vitae’ is needed now more than ever.

The publication of Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) 30 years ago marked a high-water mark of the pontificate of St. John Paul the Great.

Signed on the Solemnity of the Annunciation (March 25, 1995), the 11th of his 14 encyclicals was a publishing sensation. Paperback copies of the text appeared at supermarket checkouts. Newsweek gave it a cover story in which religion editor Kenneth Woodward praised Evangelium Vitae as the “clearest, most impassioned and most commanding encyclical of the pontificate,” John Paul’s “signature statement” in history.

John Paul was riding high in March 1995. …

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