Pro-Life

At national March, youth go deeper into ‘pro-life’ meaning

About 180 young people from Minnesota joined a crowd several hundred strong for the 41st annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., Jan. 22.

Thousands speak for unborn on Roe anniversary

Madonna Arel got a seat early Jan. 22 for the annual Prayer Service for Life at the Cathedral of St. Paul. She was there, the parishioner of St. John the Baptist in New Brighton said, “because I believe life needs to be brought forward. There’s no respect for life any more.”

Obits shed light on volume, variety and value of life

Along with missing having known these individuals, I realized I missed the stories they could have told, too, the sorrows and joys they might have shared, the pieces of wisdom their life experiences taught them.

After drug use and despair, teen’s conversion includes parish, pro-life leadership

A faithful Catholic throughout his childhood, the 18-year-old Prior Lake High School senior strayed during his early teenage years. He made some bad choices, and made some bad friends. Eventually, he turned away from God and to marijuana.

MN bill would help families of babies with chromosomal disorders

Families prepare for birth and life of babies diagnosed with chromosomal disorders

Building bridges

Minnesota Catholic Conference expects Church-supported bills to draw support from both sides of the aisle

News notes – January 15, 2015

Pray with U.S. bishops to end abortion Jan. 17-25 Event promotes healing from sexual abuse of children

This band of brothers seeks to defend life, serve the poor

A small group of men went to Mass regularly at Assumption in St. Paul back in the early 1980s. The 20-something guys, numbering less than half a dozen, were not trying to draw attention to themselves. But, they were being noticed by other regular Mass goers at the downtown St. Paul church. After a short time, they became known as “the brothers.” This, plus the leading of the Holy Spirit, got them to thinking about establishing something more formal.

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Program offers women regimen to reverse RU-486 abortion in first stages

As soon as Rebekah Chaveste swallowed the first pill of the RU-486 abortion regimen at a Planned Parenthood clinic, she regretted it. "I was crying and I was alone," recalled Chaveste, a 20-year-old college student who lives in the Sacramento area.

Adoption dream fulfilled

Kim Doyle had two desires in her life — to be a teacher and to adopt children. “I never thought I’d ever be anything else but a teacher,” said Doyle, who has worked in education for more than three decades, 29 of those years as a school principal. She has been principal at St. Wenceslaus School in New Prague, which she attended herself, since 2007.
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