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St Paul speaks of the “groaning” of Earth under life’s constant strain of transformation, even as it ever self-renews in cycles of pro-creation. The very person of every woman, and of every man by association, is to be in concert with nature (groaning) to self-fulfill life, to sustain the human species and other species.

The processes of sustaining Earth/ Life are about the pro-creation of all life (each its own kind), processes of perpetual renewal and terminal transformation, in which the human self, in the iterations of birth, prevision/ provision, and death, transforms from self-identity into Other, on and on, and on — and — by which transformation, the individual self is subsumed by and into other, what is “the process of evolution”.

By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
New York

Today is the Vatican’s 42nd annual “World Communications Day,” with the theme this year being the somewhat unwieldy “The Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service. Searching for the Truth in Order to Share it with Others.”

Benedict XVI’s message for the occasion can be found here: Message for World Communications Day