I recently had a conversation with a woman named Laura, who volunteers in the mail room at Priests for Life. She told me an interesting story about her son, Salvatore, who was born in 1973, the year Roe. Vs. Wade legalized…
June 30th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
I recently had a conversation with a woman named Laura, who volunteers in the mail room at Priests for Life. She told me an interesting story about her son, Salvatore, who was born in 1973, the year Roe. Vs. Wade legalized…
June 22nd, 2009 by Peter J. Smith
Poland may soon consider passing a new law, similar to the one passed this week in neighboring Lithuania, that bans the media and schools from promoting adverse behaviors to the development of young people, including violence, suicide, and homosexuality.
MP Artur Górski,…
June 10th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
What do LeRoy Carhart, Warren Hern, and George Tiller have in common? They are among an unknown number who perform abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy (the third trimester being the seventh, eighth, and ninth month!)
For two decades I have…
June 1st, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
At least for the moment, Giovanni Maria Vian is editor of the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. He caused a stir recently with his comments about President Obama, and by doing so, unwittingly revealed what’s at the heart of the abortion…
May 19th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
There was an eerie stillness and silence across the Notre Dame campus as my colleagues, a few of the seniors and I walked across the campus very early on the morning of Commencement Day. It was the calm before the…
April 25th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
Over a million children per grade level throughout the nation would have been with us had they not been killed by abortion. Priests for Life asks, therefore, that each graduation ceremony and liturgy include a remembrance of those who would…
April 14th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
The Sunday after Easter is Divine Mercy Sunday.
You have likely seen the picture of Jesus standing with his hand pointed to his heart, from which red and pale rays emanate. The words “Jesus, I trust in you” are at the…
March 26th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
Grief does strange things to us. It can keep us from seeing what is really going on in our lives, and prevent us from recognizing some of the most significant people we know.
On Easter morning, Mary Magdalene stood weeping by…
February 19th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
Newly-elected abortion advocates often try to paint their support for Roe vs. Wade and its companion case Doe vs. Bolton as mainstream. Some even think that the decisions constitute a “compromise” position on the divisive issue of abortion. After all, they say,…
January 6th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
Each January, three observances converge that reinforce each other and summon the Christian world to work together against injustice. January 15 is the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and on or around that day we observe a…