The diocesan Pro Vita Mass was celebrated Jan. 25 at St. James Cathedral-Basilica in Downtown Brooklyn. For more about the Pro Vita celebration, see this week’s Editor’s Space column by Ed Wilkinson.
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Obama Threatens Veto of Pro-Life Legislation
After members of the U.S. House scuttled plans Jan. 22 to vote on a measure to prohibit abortion after 20 weeks, they passed a bill to restrict taxpayer funding of abortion.
Over 500 From Diocese at Life March
At the 42nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, more than 500 pro-lifers from the Brooklyn Diocese showed their support for all human life and called for an end to abortion. Hundreds of thousands, mostly teenagers and young adults, joined in peaceful protest against the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade […]
Pro Vita Mass Returns, With Assist from K. of C.
The Diocese’s Pro Vita Mass has been revived and returned to St. James Cathedral-Basilica after an absence of about 10 years.
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio decided to schedule the liturgy at the urging of the Knights of Columbus, who came out in force to support the event on Sunday, Jan. 25, despite the inclement weather.
Foul!
Dear Editor: The website of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good invites people to join their organization by featuring a photo of Pope Francis hugging a disabled young boy and asking people to join them in “fighting for a culture of life, justice and encounter in the public sphere.” Its Pro-Life page includes a […]
Challenging Cuomo
Dear Editor: Only those who desire to be misled would believe that Mario Cuomo was ever “personally opposed” to abortion. Never once did Mario Cuomo say that abortion was evil, intrinsically or otherwise. Never once did he say – as the bishops had, as he himself could have said – that opposition to abortion as a matter […]
Differing on Cuomo
Dear Editor: I have always looked forward to reading Father John Cush’s columns and he has my utmost respect but this week’s Up Front & Personal (Jan. 10) left me stunned. Why did Father Cush quote Christopher Hale from the dissident group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a notorious pro-abortion Democrat Catholic front group […]
A Comprehensive Pro-Life Agenda
Each year, the Pro-Life movement has united at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. This year, it will be held on Thursday, Jan. 22. This event provides an opportunity for us to gather in our Nation’s capital and march down Constitution Avenue, ending at the Supreme Court, where the decision to make abortion legal in the United States has set a destructive path and human life has been reduced to a choice. It is unfortunate that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the beginning of human life, its innate dignity and the possibility of terminating life.
Pro-Life Sci-Fi
Every so often, television can surprise you. Last Saturday’s episode of the long-running British science-fiction series, Doctor Who, broadcast on BBC America, went far beyond just the usual time travel and outer spaces themes that the 51-year old series normally covered. This episode, entitled “Kill the Moon,” was one of the most pro-life hours ever broadcast on television.
Pro-Life Goal Is an Abortion-Free World
More pro-life legislation has been enacted on the state level in recent years than at any time since Roe v. Wade, and even at the federal level, legislation has been introduced that would put the abortion limit in the U.S. at 20 weeks rather than at birth.