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This past week has been a fantastic and historical week for the Pro-Life Movement. Brilliant and dedicated Pro-Life lawyers delivered compelling arguments and answered all the tough questions in front of the nine US Supreme Court Justices while thousands of Pro-Lifers rallied outside the court and thousands watched online.
This week started a flood of news reports and commentary about the Dobbs case and the Supreme Court, which will continue. Below are links to articles about this case from a Pro-Life perspective:
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/supreme-court-s-dobbs-v-jackson-oral-arguments-promising-for-pro-life-cause
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/dobbs-v-jackson-what-did-roberts-kavanaugh-and-barrett-say
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/after-oral-arguments-in-landmark-dobbs-v-jackson-abortion-case-experts-say-roe-s-days-are-numbered
Please continue your prayers. Let’s share and build the Pro-Life Generation.
The St. Gregory the Great Respect Life Committee’s central focus is to promote and protect the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death (womb to tomb). We look to educate and inform through bulletin articles, speakers and events.
Our committee needs the help and strength of our parish community. New members are welcome at any time. Please pray for us, and join us so that we may make help others more fully understand that every life matters.
Please consider joining us on the fourth Wednesday of every each month from 7:00 to 8:00 pm in the Evangelization Center and learn more about what we do and how you could participate through activities and prayer.
Interested in Respect for Life activities, but not able to attend evening meetings? There are several other opportunities to participate and support Respect Life activities.
As we continue to encourage our community to protect against Covid-19 by receiving the Covid-19 vaccination and possibly the booster, please go to the USCCB website to learn about the production of vaccines and research. Let us support morally appropriate research that has no connection to fetal cell lines. "The official position of the Catholic Church is that it is morally permissible to take these vaccines, especially during this time of worldwide pandemic. Getting vaccinated, though it is not required by the church, is in the interest of charity and common good as Pope Francis has told us." (Bishop David M. O'Connell, C.M. Catholic Charities Message on COVID-19 Vaccine March 26. 2021)
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, issued a statement on the vaccines. “It can be morally permissible for Catholics to receive a vaccine remotely connected to the evil of abortion if there are no reasonable alternatives available, and they make known their objection to morally compromised cell lines. Receiving the vaccine may be viewed as an act of self-love and charity towards one’s neighbor in eliminating a serious infectious disease.” Attached, please find the full US Bishops’ letter, as well as sample letters to send to Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson to stop research using abortion-derived cell lines, and encourage the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion.
Full letter: www.usccb.org/moral-considerations-covid-vaccines.
Letter to pharmaceutical companies: https://www.usccb.org/resources/letters-pharmaceutical-companies
Bishop O'Connell's fmessage regarding the Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiW8LQU0Wwk&t=144s