Today, the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, the National Right to Life Committee has issued a report looking at the tragic state of abortion in the U.S.
The bottom line is simple: The right-to-life movement is succeeding because even after 41 years and more than 56 million abortions, the conscience of our nations knows that killing unborn children is wrong. Click here for the report.
INFORMATION FOR MARCHERS and SUPPORTERS:
THE BUS TRIP TO THE MARCH FOR LIFE IN WASHINGTON, DC, HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE STORM. PLEASE PASS THE WORD ALONG TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO WAS PLANNING TO GO.
You can watch the March for Life in Washington on TV tomorrow. Please see the information below.
Tomorrow, Jan. 22, there will be a local prayer service and remembrance of the victims of abortion at noon, on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley, outside the mall where the Planned Parenthood offices are. Please park in the Spring Valley Marketplace lot and carefully cross the street. Do NOT park in the lot directly across from the prayer site.
Last Minute March Preparations: At the Sisters of Life motherhouse in Suffern, Sr. Margaret helps load the “famous green scarves” for the Rockland marchers.
EWTN — The Eternal Word Television Network will cover the following events from Washington on Optimum Channel 135 and Verizon Fios 285:
Going to the March? Download the EWTN app to your smartphone and see the “big picture” going on around you.
New Yorkers Will Use March for Life to Address Cuomo’s Saying Pro-Lifers Not Welcome. Click here for story. Continue reading
On January 22, 2014 our nation will remember the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
In prayerful recognition, “Nine Days of Prayer, Penance and Pilgrimage” will take place January 18-26, 2014. This is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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YOU CAN PRAY WITH CATHOLICS ALL ACROSS THE U.S. AND RECEIVE THE NOVENA DAILY THROUGH AN APP, EMAIL, OR TEXT MESSAGE OR VISIT THE NOVENA HOME PAGE ONLINE. Click here for more information.
This video was from 2010, but it’s still definitely very much worth watching for two reasons:
1. Unfortunately, the “eye-popping, mind-boggling corruption of the mainstream media” is still painfully obvious in how they present the prolife movement — and especially so each Jan. 22.
BUT . . .
2. It’s a great video! It makes me smile each time I watch it. It’s an inspiring, tremendous, upbeat picture of the March for LIfe and the people who take part in it each year. And that’s what the producers use to counter the lies and omissions of the media.
Thanks for everyone who visited the Rockand Right to Life website. Click on the blue image above for a report on site activity during 2013: most visited posts, where our visitors came from, over 10,000 page views!
SAVE THE DATE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014
Buses will leave from:
St. Peter’s in Haverstraw
Sacred Heart in Suffern
More information to come soon.
To the delight and surprise of about 40,000 participants in Rome’s Marcia per la Vita (March for Life) Internazionale in Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis left the Apostolic Palace to join them in the popemobile as they gathered in the street.
Read story here.
Enkindling the fire of the prolife movement are the young people. Their vast numbers, excitement, and energy were the story of 2013 March for Life. Here are the students of Albertus Magnus High School – two buses — who came to Washington to carry on the prolife legacy and continue the fight for life.
As we come to the end of our March for Life 2013 coverge, we’d like to thank a group of unsung heroes – the Right to Life banner pole assemblers.
For 30 years, our iconic ‘I ♥ Life’ banners have flown bravely over many Marches for Life, St. Patrick’s Day parades, and prolife events. Designed and constructed by the late Tom Niblo, they are miracles of home-made ingenuity.
And they are also somewhat pesky when it comes to assembling them – an operation that challenges you to figure out how to fit together all those crazy telescoping poles of various lengths and how to secure them the odd collection of screws, washers and assorted hardware that Tom provided.
This can only be done barehanded and — with the March for Life temperature usually below freezing, the wind blowing, and fellow marchers impatient to get the show on the road — it takes good circulation, a steady hand, a keen mind, and stout heart to be a banner pole assembler.
Then, after the March, the poles have to disassembled, collapsed, wrapped up in plastic bags, and transported by cab to the Basilica (long, pointy things are not allowed on the Metro), and eventually lugged to the bus for the trip back home.
In all their many public appearances over the years, the banners have never come crashing down on their wranglers or nearby marchers — no matter how hard the rain fell or the wind blew – nor have they ever been lost or damaged.
All this is a tribute to the many of you who have assembled them with care and carried them with pride – this, the symbol of the prolife community of Rockland.
Thank you everyone!
We’ll see you at the March next year!
Carolyn Pappalardo of Pomona describes how the reverence of college students at Mass in the Basilica after the March for Life brought her the consolation of continuity and the blessings of hope — both for the Church and the prolife movement.
After the awesome and inspiring Right to Life March up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court Building in Washington DC last Friday and our trek back to the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception to catch our bus, a few of us went inside to see if there was a Mass we could attend.
Sure enough, there was a Mass starting at a side altar in the Crypt of the Church at 4:30 p.m.. A few of us sat in the back of the little chapel so as not to interfere with the group that scheduled the Mass. In they came, college students. About 30 of them. They quietly and reverently took their seats.
No talking, no laughing, no texting, no looking around. They seemed to be from the University of Pittsburgh because one was wearing a sweatshirt with that name. They assisted the priest, proclaimed the readings, sang, and when it came time to kneel, since there were no kneelers, they knelt on the stone floor the whole time. As they processed up at Communion Time, they bowed low or knelt before rising to receive. Back in their places, again prayerfully kneeling and the same when Mass was over.
Tears flooded my eyes and my heart flooded with Hope. The Church will go on with these beautiful people and the thousands of young men and women that marched that day chanting, “We are the Pro Life Generation.”
ROCKLAND RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE 