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[[God]] told [[Moses]] that He was going to start sending '''prophets''' to speak for him. While [[Jesus]] was the greatest of these prophets, the [[Old Testament]] attests that God sent many before him that and there have been many since. The word prophet often has the meaning of someone who foretells the [[future]]. A prophet also may be understood as someone who speaks for God. [[Mother Theresa]] called for a greater respect for [[life]] at every stage. [[Pope Paul VI]] who wrote ''Humanae Vitae'' at the height of the “sexual revolution.” He was a prophet not just in the narrow sense of speaking God’s word by calling people back to a respect for themselves and for others, but also in the wider sense of predicting what would happen if artificial [[birth control]] became the norm: greater marital infidelity, loss of respect for [[women]], an increase in pre-marital sex among our youth, a general lowering of morality in all aspects of our society, not to mention government use of contraceptives for political purposes. He successfully predicted all these developments. Another prophet to come out of the sixties was [[Martin Luther King, Jr]]. He spoke the word of God and he spoke the truth in his call to end [[racism]] in this country. His call, like the prophets of old, was a call to conversion of [[heart]]; to make us realize that racism and bigotry divides the human family that [[Jesus Christ]] had to die for so that we could all be brothers and sisters of one another as children of the same loving God. Many prophets, such as King, are killed for their actions, making them [[martyr]]s. Some people don’t like hearing the truth, because it means they have to change. They “harden their hearts” to God and his truth.