The Gradual Growth of Man in the Freedom of a Child of God

In 2023, we find ourselves on the European continent after several social shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as several war conflicts and especially the war in Ukraine. At the same time, however, a significant wave of population migration to the so-called safe (socially secure) countries of Western Europe continues. Despite the significant problems that this migration is causing for a politically polarised Europe, at the same time there is a loud demand not only from Western European countries for labour in numbers that are staggering in their parameters (e.g., Germany openly speaks of an economic need for up to 400 000 labour per year). And this very year marks the 55th anniversary of the publication of Pope Paul VI's long-awaited encyclical. _Humanae Vitae _(HV), which rejected all methods of artificial contraception, i.e., the artificial prevention of the conception of life, in our paper we will try to look at the problems of the culture of life in our European space with the benefit of hindsight with a few ethic-philosophical thoughts. Although 1968 resonates for our post-communist countries as the year of the failed so-called Prague Spring and the subsequent forced unwelcome visit of a contingent of Warsaw Pact troops to the territory of the then Czechoslovakia, for the countries of Western Europe and the USA other important themes of the development of post-war modern society were at stake, including new forms of freedom (including sexual freedom), pacifism and the struggle against racism, among others.