Nellie Gray, March for Life Founder, Dies at 86

by Mark Pattison   WASHINGTON (CNS) — Nellie Gray, who started the annual March for Life parade to protest the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, has died at age 86. She was found dead in her home Aug. 13 in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood by a March for Life staffer, Gene Ruane, who […]

Diocese Has Strong Presence at March for Life (with slide show)

  by Antonina Zielinska Buses from throughout the diocese brought hundreds of pro-life supporters to the 39th annual March for Life Jan. 23 to join the tens of thousands of demonstrators in Washington D.C. “I came to speak for the children who cannot speak for themselves,” said Michael Cucci, a parishioner of Most Precious Blood parish, […]

Praying for the Unborn

March for Life participants make their way up Constitution Ave. to the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2011.  Tens of thousands of people from across the United States, including several busloads from Brooklyn and Queens, are expected to gather in the nation’s capital on Monday, Jan. 23, for this year’s March for […]