Catholic and pro-life ping!
Brilliant.
My fellow Catholics: if you’re not assisting at daily Mass ... Please consider ... even just once a week ... make your way to daily Mass and pray for an end to abortion. Even if you work far from home, it’s likely that a parish near your workplace has a daily Mass schedule you can work around.
Good idea! I'm hoping to add a regular Spanish Rosary to our parish's Hispanic Ministry, and including a pro-life focus would make it even more effective. Might even draw in more non-Spanish speakers, which is one of my goals in the Hispanic Ministry.
After the #1 priority (prayer), I would place as #2 — Honesty about which presidential contenders actually have a pro-life record.
Giuliani and Romney both rate 0 out of 10. McCain is about a 6. Thompson is a 9. Hunter and Huckabee are 10’s.
11. Do not rely on political struggle alone: if every “mother” about to kill her baby had a self-understanding that that is going to make her a murderer, abortion would be as rare as any other murder even with the proabort politicians running things. Do not hesitate to morally convict those who commit abortions as murderers and those who support it — as complicit in mass murder.
In a sense, Father Tom is naming the things and prioritizing them -- Monsignor Philip Reilly is actually implementing these things today (and yesterday).
I find, having worked for Priests for Life, that it is more concerned with steak dinners and politics more than actual pro-life prayer and presence at the clinics...
I never knew of a time, when I worked at PFL, of Father Frank going to a New York abortion clinic on his own, even though he could have been supported by the Sisters for Life, and other New York pro-lifers...
I find what Father Tom to be saying on the money, and in agreement with what Monsignor Philip Reilly has been doing for years. Monsignor Philip Reilly's group in Atlanta, Georgia, will have a Mass at the Archdiocesan Catholic Center and then have a prayerful march to a Partial Birth Abortion Clinic (that is strongly supported by TBS/Time/Warner or at least was in the early 2000's).
What Father Tom is saying we should do is basically why I got fed up with PFL and left that organization...
May I add number 11?
11. Work to provide girls and women a true choice. Support agencies that provide alternatives to abortion, such as adoption and keeping the child. If a women sins and has an abortion make sure she can find forgiveness through Christ.
the pro-life movement needs to humbly admit that abortion is such a massive evil and so deeply rooted in our social fabric that no human power can eliminate it. While we need to vote for pro-life politicians, they are not our saviors. Abortion needs to be driven out by the spiritual authority of Christ’s church like an unclean spirit. Once the pro-life movement begins to seriously fight abortion in its spiritual dimension, we will see some real pro-life victories in politics and society. We can’t say that prayer hasn’t worked until it’s actually been tried.Would this suggestion not alienate Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and atheists who sincerely believe abortion is wrong?