Getting a Jump on Fall
In the warm days of summer, it seems an awful shame to have our thoughts directed towards the Fall, but as we all know, you have to plan for Fall activities. Here are nine ideas I would like to suggest for your Pro-Life and Evangelization and Outreach planning:
1) Not everyone has Catholic schools, but if you do have, how are you looking to either incorporate or coordinate pro-life education according to your curriculum? This is a good time to take an in depth look at family life curriculum to see how pro-life principles and education are being incorporated.
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Your Summer To Do List
Looking back in history, I am struck by the intensity of debates of issues that seem meaningless or very difficult to understand today. As well, being in the Easter Season and hearing the readings from the Acts of the Apostles, we can only dimly understand the questions that roiled the apostles in the early Christian churches. It has struck me that the same is true in our time. In my many decades in the pro-life movement, I’ve been involved in intense debates about all aspects of the abortion and euthanasia issues and the legislation and methods to overcome, defeat, or restrict them. As intense as these debates were at the time, many of them have faded now into history. This has caused me to reflect on one of the major roles of Priests for Life Canada.
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Contradictions of the Resurrection
Lots of us celebrate an anniversary by going on a holiday. I decided I would go to visit my sister in Albuquerque, New Mexico while celebrating my 50th anniversary of activity in the pro-life movement. It may not surprise people that while I was there, I spent one morning picketing outside an abortuary that is notorious even by the lax New Mexico standards. This Southwestern Women’s Options abortuary specializes in late term abortions. New Mexicans doesn’t impose bubble zone injunctions. So we were there - literally on the edge of the parking lot - watching as women drove in from Texas and Oklahoma to have late term abortions in an otherwise unassuming facility. It was cold! As I was standing talking to the only other person who was the lone Truth Bearer at the abortuary…
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