"...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?" (Alice von Hildebrand, The Privilege of Being a Woman) Make your…
Tag: respect life month
Respect Life Month – Day Twenty-Six
"Failing to name error because of some kind of fear of offending the person in error is neither compassion nor charity. Confronting or challenging the error or evil of another is never easy yet it must be done." (Bishop Robert…
Respect Life Month – Day Twenty-Five
"Dear families, rejoice in fatherhood and motherhood! Openness to life is a sign of openness to the future, confidence in the future, just as respect for the natural moral law frees people, rather than demeaning them! The good of the…
Respect Life Month – Day Twenty-Three
"I express my deep appreciation for all those social and pastoral initiatives aimed at combating the socio-economic and cultural mechanisms which lead to abortion, and openly concerned with defending life and promoting the reconciliation and healing of those harmed by…
Respect Life Month – Day Twenty-Two
"When political agendas openly or covertly contemplate the decriminalization of abortion or euthanasia, the democratic ideal, which is truly democratic when it recognizes and protects the dignity of every human person, is betrayed in its fundamentals." (Benedict XVI) When considering…
Respect Life Month – Day Twenty-One
"If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended." (Blessed Mother Teresa) Ask your parish priest to instigate a Holy Hour dedicated to praying for the cause of life once a month (or more frequently…
Respect Life Month – Day Twenty
"Education in love as self-giving is also the indispensable premise for parents called to give their children a clear and delicate sex education. Faced with a culture that largely reduces human sexuality to the level of something common place, since…
Respect Life Month – Day Nineteen
“I started changing my mind in 1973, when advanced technology moved into our hospitals and offices. I speak now of ultrasound imaging, fetal heart monitoring electronically, hysteroscopy, fetoscopy—things that gave us a window into the womb. Over a period of…
Respect Life Month – Day Eighteen
"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother…
Respect Life Month – Day Seventeen
"Nothing we do to defend the human person, no matter how small, is ever unfruitful or forgotten. Our actions touch other lives and move other hearts in ways we can never fully understand in this world. Don't ever underestimate the…