. "The Bible teaches that life is a gift of God and hence we have to respect it from womb to tomb.Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, O.F.F. Cap., chairman of the Respect Life committee, wrote in his 2013 Day of Life Greeting, Pope Francis conveyed that :even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live" . . .