From Father Frank Pavone, National Director
Priests for Life
Introduction
Priests
for Life, the largest Catholic ministry focused on ending abortion, is
actually a family of interrelated apostolates, including Deacons for
Life, Seminarians for Life, Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, Rachel's
Vineyard, the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, African-American
Outreach, Hispanic Outreach, Youth Outreach, Political Responsibility,
Prayer Campaign, Life on the Line Media Outreach, and the Parliamentary
Network for Critical Issues. All of these are organized under a larger umbrella of Gospel of Life Ministries.
The
pastoral team has put into place a series of activities, plans, and
goals for the year 2014. Some of these are public; some are
confidential. The following report is a partial summary of
some of those plans. Our Pastoral Team, includes Dr. Alveda King, Marie
Smith, Dr. Theresa and Kevin Burke, Janet Morana, Bryan Kemper, Fr.
Victor Salomon, Fr. Frank Pavone, Fr. Denis Wilde, OSA, and others who
work with the ministries that comprise the Priests for Life/Gospel of
Life Family.
Recall Abortion -- and Let the Healing Begin
Abortion
kills children and hurts women and men, and Priests for Life will
continue to connect those realities during this year, as we demonstrate
that abortion is a failed and dangerous "product" which, like is done
with other harmful products, should be "recalled from the market" and no
longer made available to the American public.
Raising awareness of the damage abortion does will be accomplished through the continued growth of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (www.SilentNoMore.com),
the world's largest mobilization of those who have lost children to
abortion and speak about their experience. We will start the year strong
with a renewed effort to bring men and women to Washington, DC for the
March for Life and to San Francisco for the Walk for Life, and share
their testimonies and/or hold signs saying "I Regret My Abortion" and "I
Regret Lost Fatherhood."
During the year, the
testimonies we have collected will be made even more widely available,
and a database index will be further developed so that people with
specific experiences (for instance, late-term abortion, or abortion
without parental involvement) can be more easily identified and can
therefore help with educational or legislative efforts that focus on
those particular experiences.
Another key tool
for this overall effort is Janet Morana's book Recall Abortion, which
shows how moms and dads recall their abortion and the damage it does,
and makes the case for a government recall of this harmful procedure.
The book also calls people to sign a petition for the recall of
abortion, at RecallAbortion.com.
The Silent No More Awareness Campaign, as well as Recall Abortion
is also a call to healing, and we carry out that healing primarily by
administering the world's largest ministry for healing after abortion, Rachel's Vineyard.
This year will see improved and streamlined methods for setting up new
Rachel's Vineyard retreat sites around the world, and new online
training courses for those who run the retreats. We will also more
widely disseminate the new Rachel's Vineyard manual in Spanish.
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