Announcements & News

6th Annual 4US

Are you looking for something fun to do with your family this summer?

The Gospel of Life Institute invites you to "illuminate hope" in the lives of mothers and their babies by registering today to Ride, Run or Walk 4US on Saturday, July 30, at Ft. Steilacoom Park. As many of you know, 4US raises money to purchase ultrasound machines for pregnancy clinics, illuminating hope for mothers in crisis. Benefitting clinics offer entirely free services to pregnant women, bringing the joy of motherhood into focus within a loving network of support. 96% of women who see their babies on ultrasound decide to give birth to their child(ren).

Ride one of three distances (21, 42 or 70 miles) beginning at 6:00 a.m. with a free pancake breakfast; run a 5K or 10K timed race at 9:00 a.m.; or walk (5K or 10K) through wooded grasslands and trails at 10:00 a.m. All participants will enjoy the Family Fun Festival with live Christian music, rock-climbing, face-painting, inflatables, balloon animals, and food for the children from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Registration may be completed online or via mail. Registration fees increase on July 1.

Regardless of whether or not you are able to participate, please consider making a donation to 4US 4 mothers, 4 babies, 4 life!

June 23, 2011

The Tide is Turning: Students for Life of America

Fr. Ed White
June 20, 2011

Bishop's Statement and New Resources on Assisted Suicide

At their meeting today, June 16, in Bellevue, the U.S. bishops approved a new statement concerning physician-assisted suicide. In addition to the statement, the USCCB is also providing several new resources that are available now on the following website: www.usccb.org/toliveeachday.

The statement, To Live Each Day with Dignity, passed with a vote of 191-1. It marks the first time the full body of bishops has issued a statement devoted to this issue.

Countering two claims of the assisted suicide movement, that its agenda affirms patients’ “choices” and expresses “compassion” for their suffering, the statement says physician-assisted suicide does not promote compassion because its focus is not on eliminating suffering, but on eliminating the patient. The statement argues that assisted suicide is not an addition to palliative care, but a poor substitute that can ultimately become an excuse for denying better medical care to seriously ill people, including those who never considered suicide an option. It concludes by advancing what Pope John Paul II called “the way of love and true mercy,” and calls on Catholics to work with others to uphold the right of each person to live with dignity.

Jim Thomas
June 16, 2011