Pope warns of the dangers of putting man in God’s place

ADDRESSING more than two million faithful gathered for Poland's largest open-air Mass ever, Pope John Paul II warned yesterday of dangers posed when man “puts himself in God’s place.”

Modern man often "lives as if God does not exist," the pope warned, "and even puts himself in God's place," referring to genetic engineering and euthanasia.

"He claims for himself the creator's right to interfere in the mystery of human life. He wishes to determine human life through genetic manipulation and establish the limit of death," John Paul said.