Culture of Life Report
Walk for Life – West Coast – tens of thousands pray & witness for life
It is always inspiring to join 50,000 others who come together to witness for life. Those of us who went to San Francisco found great weather, heard impressive speakers and prayed together with complete strangers for our common cause. BART was an excellent way to get to the Walk as the train was filled both ways with others going to/from the Walk. Mark your calendars for Jan. 26, 2013 and attend the next Walk for Life.
40 Days for Life – Feb. 22 – Apr. 1
Please join us in the Spring 40 Days for Life prayer vigil at the Women’s Health Specialists Center at 1750 Wright St (at Alta Arden).
It is edifying to me as Culture of Life Director to see that many of you Brother Knights participate in each of these vigils. It is not easy, popular or cool to acknowledge publicly that we stand on the side of life. In fact, when many of us do stand up publicly for life, it is typical for us to be vilified by family, friends and strangers alike.
So, I ask you to pray and ask God for guidance on how you can participate in this Spring’s vigil. But most of all, as Christ himself said and Blessed John Paul II echoed, “Do not be afraid!”
Sign-up sheets will be circulated at our Feb. business meeting and through email for you to sign up to pray, fast or give witness. Please put your pro-life beliefs into action.
To learn more visit: 40daysforlife(dot)com and 40daysforlife(dot)com/sacramento
Parental Notification & Death Penalty Initiatives
Bishop Soto and the other bishops in California are asking all Catholics to support two initiatives that are gathering signatures for the fall ballot. One is for parental notification if a minor girl seeks an abortion. The other would abolish the death penalty in California and replace it with life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. Bishop Soto is asking there to be signature gathering in every parish on the 3rd weekend of February for both initiatives.
For more information, see Bishop Soto’s letter.
Did you know?
In 2008, the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist and who became pro-life and was baptized a Catholic, was interviewed on a Canadian radio station. In that interview, Dr. Nathanson, who was a major part of the movement for legalizing abortion in America, “recalled the deceitful and dishonest tactics that he and NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) relied upon to push for the legalization and acceptance of abortion. ‘We claimed that between five and ten thousand women a year died of botched abortions,’ he said. ‘The actual figure was closer to 200 to 300 and we also claimed that there were a million illegal abortions a year in the United States and the actual figure was close to 200,000. So, we were guilty of massive deception.’ “
Source: www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2008/jul/08072904
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”…You shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.” From The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Didache) – The Lord’s Teaching Through The Twelve Apostles to the Nations, Chapter 2. The Second Commandment: Grave Sin Forbidden, circa 100 A.D.
Dominic Ielati
Culture of Life Director