Couple opposes death penalty even after the murder of their daughter
Vicki and Sylvester Schieber are great examples for all of us. It is sometimes easy to stand on principle and our shared values when we are not personally impacted. The difficulty is in standing firm in the faith of personal tragedy and pain!
The National Network of Abortion Funds is planning on sponsoring local bowl-a-thons in communities across the United States. The purpose of these events are to raise funds to help women pay for their abortions, help them buy bus or plane tickets, and even offer women a place to stay when they have to travel for an abortion.
The events are scheduled for the month of April and will take place all across the country. We need your help to contact the local bowling alleys listed below and ask them to withdraw their association from these events. Instead, urge them to support their local crisis pregnancy center. We have more to offer these women than money for an abortion!
Dart Bowl
5700 Grover Ave.
Austin, Texas 78756
512-452-2518
george.wall@dartbowl.com
Palace Bowling Lanes
4191 Bellaire Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77025
713-667-6554
Venture Lanes
6300 Maccorkle Ave
Saint Albans, WV 25177-2330
304-768-7307
Columbus Square Bowling Palace
5707 Forest Hills Boulevard
Columbus, OH 43231
614-859-1122
Southtowne Lanes
2486 Willamette St.
Eugene, Oregon 97405
541-345-8575
southtownelanes@msn.com
Town Hall Lanes
1463 Atwood Ave.
Johnston, RI 02919
401-831-6940
THLBowl@aol.com
North Bowl
909 North 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123-2301
215-238-2695
Visit their web site to see additional locations to contact in your city.
The Great Prayer Project – End Abortion is simply this, starting March 25, 2010, the organizers hope to have one continuous year of prayer to end abortion. The way this objective will be achieved is by allowing individuals to sign up for 20 minute time slots and pray for an end to abortion during that time period.
Think that 20 minutes is a long time to pray??? Visit their prayer tips page for suggestions.
Click on over to the Prayer Calendar to sign up while there are still spots available.
“The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.” ~ Pope John Paul II
Focus on the Family have purchased time during this year’s Super Bowl broadcast to air a compelling pro-life ad featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and the decision his mother made 23 years ago to give birth to her unborn son when doctors were urging her to abort him.
CBS has come under withering fire from the left for its decision to air this ad. Joy Behar of “The View” even said abortion would have been an appropriate choice since there was no way for Tim’s mom to know that he wouldn’t grow up to be a “rapist pedophile.”
Here is something for all you Law and Order fans. 4 actors from Law and Order – Criminal Intent are working with Planned Parenthood to promote abortion. Actors Eric Bogosian @bogosiana, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Julianne Nicholson lend their faces, voices and names to Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion effort.
“The majority of insurance plans cover abortion care. The new health care system will make it harder for millions of women to purchase private health care insurance that covers abortions. This would be the most devastating restriction to abortion since Roe v. Wade.”
While we certainly support their right to promote any product or service that they want, we have an obligation to contact these actors and asks them to stop spreading false information. Read more at Lifenews.com.
This will be the first year that a Right to Life March and Rally will be held in Tulsa marking the 37th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision allowing legal abortion in the United States. The Jan. 22 event is sponsored by several local organizations and a coalition of churches, including Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, charismatic, evangelical and fundamentalist and is expected to attract over 2000 participants.
The march will be a little less than one mile, and will end with a rally at Chapman Centennial Green, on 6th Street between Boston and Main. At the rally, several local speakers will address the marchers and encourage them to be resolute in their commitment to the defense of life.
Organizers say the event will offer support and solidarity to those who make the sacrifice to travel each year to Washington D.C., and remind them that they are not alone. Secondly, it will offer people who cannot travel to the National Right to Life March in Washington an opportunity to voice their opposition to abortion in a public and peaceful manner. Finally, this march offers a wide variety of Christian churches and denominations the opportunity to work together for a common cause while testifying together to their unrelenting opposition to abortion.
Read the full press release here for more information.
Racism, bigotry, anti-Christian hatred, and vicious personal attacks on people with HIV have been displayed in the windows of a Rockford abortion facility. And the local government has not acted to stop it and are losing the trust of the citizens. For those of you who are near Rockford, this is an opportunity to go and offer your support. Remember:
All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
January 22, 2010, 7:30am at Rockford’s Abortion Mill, 1400 Broadway
This is the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe V. Wade that has resulted in the deaths of over 50 million children in the United States.
Christians will gather to pray and remember the 50 million children who have been killed nationally by abortion and the more than 50,000 children who have been killed inside of Rockford’s own abortion mill.
Our prayers will include:
The Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Stations of the Cross, and the Litany for Life in Rockford
Please join us for this Day of Penance and Rally for Life in Rockford.
For more information please contact the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative at RockfordProLife.com or 815-494-0333
“everything collapses without respect for life.” Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo
“Some will say that the defense of innocent life is only one issue among many, that it is important but not fundamental. They are wrong. In the natural moral law, the good of life is the most fundamental good and the condition for the enjoyment of all other goods.” Archbishop Raymond Burke
“The taking of innocent human life is so heinous, so horribly evil, and so absolutely opposite to the law of Almighty God that abortion must take precedence over every other issue.” Bishop James Timlin
“…we have a most grave obligation to defend all human life from the moment of conception until natural death. God help us if we fail in this most fundamental obligation.” Archbishop John Myers
This is a great opportunity to support the Susan B Anthony List as they work hard to elect Pro-Life candidates and protect taxpayer funds from funding abortion.
10:00 AM—Pittsburgh, PA
225 Ross St., Pittsburgh, PA 15219 15219 (Between 2nd Ave and 3rd Ave)
Sidewalk in front of Congressman Doyle’s district office.
Local Representatives who need to hear from you!
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1:30 PM—Youngstown, OH
4137 Boardman Canfield Road, Canfield, OH 44406
In front of Congressman Wilson’s Office.
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4:00 PM—Erie, PA
208 E. Bayfront Parkway Suite 102, Erie, PA 16507
Right in front Rep. Dahlkemper’s office.
Special Directions: Head East on Bayfront Parkway, turn left (North) on Hudson St., and the Intermodal Transportation Center on your right, at the bottom of Hudson on your right.
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9:00 AM—Cleveland, OH
Willard Park, next to City Hall. 601 Lakeside East Avenue, Cleveland, OH.
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11: 45 AM – Toledo, OH
One Maritime Plaza, Toledo, Ohio 43604
Sidewalk in front of Congresswoman Kaptur’s office
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3:30 PM—South Bend, IN
207 West Colfax Avenue, South Bend, IN 46601
In front of Congressman Donnelly’s district office.
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9:00 AM—Cincinnati, OH
Carew Tower, 441 Vine Street, Suite 3003, Cincinnati, OH 45202 (corner of Vine and 5th)
Outside Congressman Driehaus’ office.
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1:00 PM—Terre Haute, IN
901 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana 47807
Outside Congressman Ellsworth’s Office, Southeast Corner of 9th and Wabash Avenue.
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3:00 PM – Indianapolis, IN
200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204
Indiana Statehouse, South Atrium, 200 W Washington St., Indianapolis, In 46204
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been very supportive of health care reform but has expressed disappointment at the direction that the current legislation is taking.
USCCB Position on Health Care Reform includes the following:
The USCCB has issued an updated bulletin insert and is encouraging parishioners to get involved and contact their Representatives and Senators.
As long-time advocates of health care reform, the U.S. Catholic bishops continue to make the moral case that genuine health care reform must protect the life, dignity, consciences and health of all, especially the poor and vulnerable. Health care reform should not advance a pro-abortion agenda in our country.
A coalition of pro-life advocates and religious leaders plan to gather in Houston on Jan. 18 to oppose what is expected to be the largest abortion 
clinic in the country. If you are in the Houston area, make plans to join them.
Planned Parenthood is converting a former bank building into a 78,000 square foot facility. The clinic is strategically located in a part of Houston that is surrounded by black and Hispanic neighborhoods raising the question of whether Planned Parenthood is intentionally targeting minorities.
As our Representatives head back to Washington and Congress goes back in session, we have an obligation to educate ourselves on the current health care debate. This has the potential to have the most significant legislation and societal changes of our lifetime.
Implementation of any of the existing health care reform initiatives will have the effect of institutionalizing deeply held values from both the left and the right. The premise that health care is a basic human right which everyone should have access to is a concept that liberal politicians have been advocating for decades. The tenets of Catholic Social Justice implies that same thing and this has been strongly supported by the USCCB.
The difference of opinion among Americans, and even among Catholics comes down to the delivery of health care services and what those basic services represent.
Earlier this fall, Kansas City, Kansas Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann and Kansas City – St. Joseph Bishop Robert W. Finn have released a joint pastoral statement on Principles of Catholic Social Teaching and Health Care Reform. The statement reflects the fundamental principles of Catholic social and moral teaching that must accompany any evaluation of the varied health reform proposals. Included in the letter was an in depth explanation of the principles of Subsidiarity and Solidarity; both of which play a significant role in defining the need for and the limitations of health care reform.
For years, the right has been successful in restricting the use of federal dollars in funding abortions. Depending on the language that comes out of the conference committee, the signing of this legislation could ingrain the use of tax dollars for the funding of abortion in federal law or provide a permanent injunction against it.
Each of us has an obligation to educate ourselves on the legislation as it clears the committee and heads back to the House and the Senate for a final vote. As Catholics we have an obligation to actively promote a just and moral solution to the existing health care crisis. There is no excuse for sitting back and relying on the press or even our Priest and Bishops to let us know what is going on. The obligation lies with each of us individually.
The bishops of the United States have issued a 60-page pastoral letter on marriage that offers an overview of Catholic teaching on the sacrament while addressing the challenges posed by contraception, same-sex unions, divorce, and cohabitation.
This is objectively wrong in and of itself and is essentially opposed to God’s plan for marriage and proper human development. It makes the act of intercourse signify, or speak, something less than the unreserved self-gift intended in the marriage promises.
from Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif)
I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill.
I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Who elected them to Congress?
The role the bishops played in the pushing the Stupak amendment, which unfairly restricts access for low-income women to insurance coverage for abortions, was more than mere advocacy.
They seemed to dictate the finer points of the amendment, and managed to bully members of Congress to vote for added restrictions on a perfectly legal surgical procedure.
And this political effort was subsidized by taxpayers, since the Council enjoys tax-exempt status.
When I visit churches in my district, we are very careful to keep everything “non-political” to protect their tax-exempt status.The IRS is less restrictive about church involvement in efforts to influence legislation than it is about involvement in campaigns and elections.
Given the political behavior of USCCB in this case, maybe it shouldn’t be.
