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March for Life, Pt 3 of 4: signs and banners

We suggest you may want to take some of  these images and use them for promoting the right to life in your group or Church.

Part four and wrap up tomorrow.

President Trump Pro-life remarks at the El Paso Texas Rally

This past weekend.

Cardinal Dolan's past Sunday letter re: Governor Cuomo -

The letter was supposed to be read in every Church at every Mass in the Archdiocese of NY. The picture is not Dolan's - we found it online.

Letter to the Faithful of the Archdiocese of New York

February 3, 2019 Feast of St. Blaise Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

My Dear People of the Archdiocese:

Rarely do I intrude on your Sunday Mass, our most sacred time of the week, but in light of the events of the past two weeks, our priests have asked me to share some reflections on the radical abortion expansion bill, recently passed by our state legislature and signed with fanfare and celebration by our governor.

This chilling law, if you have not heard, insists on the right to an abortion up to the moment of birth; drops all charges against an abortionist who allows an aborted baby, who somehow survived the scissors, scalpel, saline, and dismemberment, to die; mandates that, to make an abortion more convenient and easy, a physician need not perform it; and could be used to suppress the conscience rights of healthcare professionals not to assist in the grisly procedure. All this in a state which already had the most permissive abortion climate, and one of the highest rates of abortion, in the nation.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you.” Can there be any clearer statement of God’s eternal love for each one of us from the womb to the tomb, than these words from the prophet Jeremiah in today’s first reading?

In the “throw-away” culture that Pope Francis so often decries, we saw actual celebrations at the passage of a bill that makes it even easier to dispose of a life that someone might find inconvenient or troublesome, for any reason at all. Those who told us that abortion had to remain safe, legal, and rare, now have made it dangerous, imposed, and frequent.

We also had to watch and listen as our governor proudly proclaimed his dissent from this and other clear Church teaching, as if it were a badge of honor, and used an out-of-context quote from Pope Francis as an applause line.

I’m a pastor, not a politician, and as a pastor, I am obliged to challenge our political leaders, to urge them to re-examine their priorities, and to respect and protect the unborn baby in the womb as strongly and passionately as we should the undocumented immigrant, the single mom worrying how she will feed her family, our dying grandparents, or the poor struggling to make it.

At the same time, we can recall the words of Saint Paul in his moving letter to the Corinthians, from today’s Bible readings, “Love is patient, love is kind…It is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury. It does not rejoice over wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” No matter the hurt, frustration, the disappointment, and yes, even the anger we may feel now at the passage of this horrific and grisly bill, we should not respond with more bitterness and divisiveness, but continue to put our trust in the Lord and ask for his guidance and inspiration.

Thank God we have the promise of Jesus that “not even the gates of hell will prevail.”

With gratitude for your attention, and promising my prayers as I ask for yours, I am,

Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan

Archbishop of New York

Spokane, WA Bishop Daly makes clear pro-abortion politicians cannot take communion.

Some Bishops have said this in the past. Still waiting to hear it from  NY Cardinal Dolan. We are not holding our breath.  See here the Cardinal's disappointing  interview a few days ago. We will post the Cardinal's letter that was read in every church this past Sunday as soon as it is available online.

This is the Bishop of Spokane, Washington and is off a new website, Complicit Clergy.

Bishop Daly Bars ALL Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians From Receiving Communion

In response to the heinous abortion law recently enacted in the state of New York, Bishop Thomas Daly of the Diocese of Spokane, Washington today issued a pastoral letter in which he instructed all unrepentant pro-abortion politicians in his diocese to refrain from receiving holy communion. In the letter, Bishop Daly states:

Politicians who reside in the Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and who obstinately persevere in their public support for abortion, should not receive Communion without first being reconciled to Christ and the Church (cf. Canon 915; “Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion. General Principles.” Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2004).

The Church’s commitment to the life of every human person from conception until death is firm. God alone is the author of life and for the civil government to sanction the willful murder of children is unacceptable. For a Catholic political leader to do so is scandalous. I encourage the faithful to turn to our Lord in prayer for our political leaders, entrusting them especially to the intercession of St. Thomas More, a public servant who preferred to die at the hands of civil authorities rather than abandon Christ and the Church. Let us also keep the unborn, as well as all pregnant mothers, in our prayers.

Bishop Daly’s action will hopefully act as a catalyst to encourage the Bishops of New York to follow his lead.  You can read Bishop Daly’s entire letter here.

TAKE ACTION: Ask the Bishops of New York Follow Bishop Daly’s Example with Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians in Their Dioceses