Pope Francis: “Anyone who is Christian has a duty to bear the Gospel witness: protect life courageously and lovingly in all its phases. I encourage you to do this always with the style of closeness, of proximity: so that every woman may feel considered as a person, heard, accepted and accompanied.”
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.”
In Evangelli Gaudium and his other remarks on abortion, Pope Francis has embraced a whole life approach to the issue, linking it to other threats to human life and dignity. He sees it as a social justice issue that is deeply and gravely important, but not one that should drown out every other issue. Even… Read More Nothing New About Pope Francis’ Whole Life Approach
Numerous pro-life organizations recently filed a friend of the court brief in the Supreme Court for an important case on the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, Young v. United Parcel Service. Among those organizations filing the brief was Democrats For Life of America (DFLA). Millennial editor Robert Christian, a senior fellow at DFLA, interviewed University… Read More Ending Discrimination Against Pregnant Women: An Interview with Thomas Berg
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