There are three things I heard over the past week that are stuck in my head. First, “We are the pro-life generation!” Thousands of young people chanted this refrain at last Thursday’s March for Life in Washington. Then, “We’re not asking – we’re demanding! Give us the vote!” This was a masterful Daniel Oyelowo portraying… Read More A Very Catholic Week: The March for Life, Selma, and Immigration Reform
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article in Time. He writes: To be truly pro-life, we cannot simply support a child’s right to be born, but also the right of the mother to expect substantial support from her community and from her government. We can’t be pro-life and anti-woman. It doesn’t work. And we… Read More CJH: Turning Today’s Anti-abortion Movement into Tomorrow’s Pro-life Movement
Check out these highlights from Pope Francis’ speech: “This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda. Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the… Read More Key Quotes from Pope Francis’ First Speech in the Philippines
Pope Francis: “The unborn in a mother’s womb is the paragon of innocence.”
Daniel Hoover and Martha Jordan are the keynote speakers at this year’s Diocese of Camden Respect Life Leaders Gathering on Saturday, October 18 at St. Charles Borromeo in Sicklerville. By then, they’ll be married! (Yes, to each other!) The gathering, Called to Love All Life, will bring together current and aspiring leaders in the pro-life… Read More Called to Love All Life
Faith in Public Life’s John Gehring recently interviewed Joseph Fiorenza, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and a former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Gehring asked a superb set of questions, and the Archbishop responded with equally excellent answers. Here are some of the highlights of the Archbishop’s responses: The Pope… Read More Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza on Poverty, Structural Sin, Nuns, and a Broader Pro-Life Agenda
Matthew Scully has an excellent, challenging piece in National Review Online, in which he compares the anti-abortion cause to opposing cruelty toward animals (quite convincingly) and makes the case for veganism (not so much). Catholic thought is embedded throughout Scully’s essay. Scully cites Vatican statements from the last three popes that affirm humanity’s responsibility to… Read More Must Pro-lifers Oppose Cruelty to Animals?
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