Commentary and News

A very brave and faithful pro-lifer, Virgil, is on life support at Madigan Hospital. He is a dear friend of Bud (the founder of Tacoma Stands Up for Life). His Lukemia seems to be getting the best of him. Bud and Virgil have worked and prayed together, praying and sidewalk counseling at abortion mills (mostly planned parenthood) for more than 20 years. From what Bud has seen and heard, things do not look like recovery is much of a possibility. We ask your prayers for Virgil and his lovely wife Dorothy. What a blessing he has been!! FATHER, we place him in your hands. It is our prayer that he can continue in his life as a powerful witness for the lives of innocent children. God Bless you, Virgil.

December 28, 2007

Please pray for Pakistan and peace in the Muslim world after today's assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

More information is available from LifeNews and the Associated Press.

December 27, 2007

Information about the January 22 March for Life in Olympia is available on our events page.

We wish you a blessed Christmas season!

December 22, 2007

"And it is today, in the present that we decide our future destiny. It is with our concrete everyday behavior in this life that we determine our eternal fate. At the end of our days on earth, at the moment of death, we will be evaluated on the basis of our likeness or otherwise to the Baby Who is about to be born in the poor grotto of Bethlehem, because He is the measure God has given humanity."
~ Pope Benedict XVI, Christ is the Measure God has Given Humanity, December 9, 2007 ~

Heritage House has 4 posters on sale through December 23, 2007.  At $1.95 each, it's the perfect time to purchase some in preparation for the 30th annual March for Life in Olympia.

Sts. Peter and Paul's Respect Life coordinator will be placing a group order with Heritage House for Friends of Life.  If you are able to pick up your posters in Tacoma and would like to add your order to hers, please contact Peggy.

December 19, 2007

Embracing Life, a pregnancy aid center in Marysville, WA, is in desperate need of diapers, sizes 2 and up.  They are also in need of clothes for boys 6 to 9 months and girls 3 years and up.  Cash donations would also be greatly appreciated.

Donations can be delivered or mailed to:
Embracing Life
1523 10th St. Suite B
Marysville, WA 98270

Embracing Life is open on Monday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Pregnancy Aid in Everett is in great need of volunteers.  If you or someone you know can volunteer for a few hours each month, please give Nadine a call at 425-252-6444.

Birthright is also in need of volunteers.  If you have a sincere desire to help pregnant women and their babies, please call 1-800-550-4900 or email info@birthright.org for more information.

These centers are truly helping mothers and babies.  Please keep them in your prayers.

Hike4Life
We are good citizens of America and of the Kingdom, pilgrims on our way home, stopping along the way to quietly pray in adoration of our God, in reparation for the outrageous sin of abortion, in supplication for our pre-born brothers and sisters who have no voice, and for all those involved in abortion in any way.  We do not seek to provoke controversy, shout slogans or carry graphic signs.  Willing to step out in faith, we are simply Christians, dedicated to the proposition that all human life is sacred.

Hike4Life is a four day ‘walk & drive pilgrimage’ to 12 abortion businesses from Silverdale to Olympia, from January 19-22, 2008.

It will begin on Saturday, January 19, 2008, at Our Lady Star of the Sea parish in Bremerton.  Participants will walk to the two west-sound Planned Parenthood facilities in Bremerton and Silverdale, continue the first day’s hike at three abortion mills in Seattle, and then drive to Renton.  

The second day, Sunday, January 20, participants will drive and hike to the abortuaries in Renton, Kent, and Federal Way.  They will end the day in Tacoma.

On Monday, January 21, they plan to pray at the three abortion businesses in Tacoma and then arrive in Olympia that afternoon.

Early on Tuesday, January 22, they will walk to, and pray at the abortion mill in Olympia, returning in time for the Pro-Life Mass.  Finally, they will walk to, and take part in, the March for Life.

Hike4Life recently learned that parishes within the archdiocese will not be allowed to provide the hikers with a place to rest, so they need your help.

If you live in Renton, Tacoma, or Olympia please consider opening your home to the 12-14 hikers. They will need a little food and a place to roll out their sleeping bags and sleep:

Saturday, January 19 in Renton
Sunday, January 20 in Tacoma
Monday, January 21 in Olympia

If you are able and willing to open your home to Hike4Life, please contact Suzan.

FL Heisman winner could have been aborted
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Doctors once recommended that Florida's Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow, be aborted.
Pam Tebow and her husband were Christian missionaries in the Philippines in 1985 and they prayed for "Timmy" before she became pregnant. As the Gainesville Sun reports, Pam entered into a coma after she contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite.
The treatment required medications that doctors said had caused irreversible damage to Tim -- so they advised her to have an abortion.
Pam Tebow refused the abortion, citing her faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without disabilities. She spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed, and gave birth to a healthy baby boy in August 1987.

As prominent researcher Joel Brind writes in a new LifeNews.com editorial, doctors are frequently telling women they should consider abortions when confronted with various medical situations affecting their health.
Yet, as he notes, physicians can successfully treat both mother and child without suggesting that the baby be killed to spare a mother's life.

The Gainesville Sun story is at www.gainesville.com/article/20071206/NEWS/712060310

For a chilling perspective on the human toll that 35 years of surgical abortion has taken on this country, please see Fr. Euteneuer’s article, How Many Heisman Winners Has Abortion Killed?

The Central Deanery Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women is sponsoring a bus to the March for Life in Olympia on January 22, 2008.  Please see the March for Life flyer for more information.  Space is limited.  The deadline for bus reservations is January 13, 2008.

December 17, 2007

“This is not a debate about religious doctrine or even about public policy options. It is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted.
We are knee-deep in a culture of death...Look, in this advanced democracy, in the year 2000, is it our crowning achievement that we have learned to treat people as things? Our moment in history is marked by a mortal conflict between a culture of life and a culture of death.  God put us in the world to do noble things, to love and to cherish our fellow human beings, not to destroy them.  Today we must choose sides.”
~ Henry Hyde (April 18, 1924 - November 29, 2007) ~

December 6, 2007