Fr. Frank Pavone

 

Pregnancy Resource Centers: Turning Despair to Hope

October 28th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone

One of the most encouraging facts about the pro-life effort in our country is that there are far more pregnancy resource centers (over 2300) than there are abortion mills (about 740).

The centers used to be called “crisis pregnancy centers” and…

 

Pro-life: Hobby or Spirituality?

October 8th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone

Jesus Christ is Life. To stand with him is to stand with life, and to stand against whatever destroys life. Being “pro-life,” therefore, is not merely a “personal belief” or a political ideology. Pro-life action is not merely a hobby…

 

Prayer and Testimony Will Shape Health Care Debate

September 14th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone

The health care debate in our country continues to rage, and for us in the pro-life movement, the key issue continues to be the fact that access to and funding for abortion will be vastly expanded unless the legislation explicitly…

 

Women Proclaim Freedom from Shame

September 3rd, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone

“We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us” (1 Jn. 1:3). With these words, John spells out the basis on which the Gospel was announced to the world: personal…

 

Stealth Care

July 21st, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone

A lot of energy was expended to stop the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA), and those efforts succeeded. But pro-life groups warned that the FOCA provisions to expand abortion and force us to pay for it would be snuck in…

 

The Pope’s Gift to the President and to Us

July 14th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone

At Pope Benedict’s meeting with President Obama, the Pope gave the President two gifts: the new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, and the recent document on bioethics, Dignitas Personae. The latter gift was apparently a last-minute addition. Upon leaving the meeting,…

 

One Solitary Child

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…

 

Poland Considering Law to Protect Youth from Promotion of Homosexuality

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,…

 

Forcing a Pro-Choice Crisis: What About Third Trimester Abortions?

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…

 

Sometimes “Respect” Can Blind Us

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…

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