Pro-life supporters arrived in throngs to participate in the 39th annual Maryland March for Life March 3.
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Pro-Lifers need to talk about it all
With the recent attention to both the March for Women and the March for Life, I’m noticing an upswing in the chatter over what pro-lifers really stand for. The typical criticism goes something like: “You people only care about babies until they’re born!” or “You’re not pro-life, you’re pro-fetus!”This is
When your child asks about abortion
Dinner is on the stove and I’m setting the table when our second grader walks into the kitchen.He is carrying a postcard he’s pulled out of the pile of mail.“Is this what we were talking about?” he asks, and he points to a picture on the postcard.I glance down and
Finding healing after an abortion in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
To help with the trauma of abortion, the Catholic Church offers healing and ministry of presence.
Georgie’s Story: Choosing life when the prognosis is death
The ultrasound technician who gently swept a probe across my wife’s gel-covered belly spoke hardly a word.
‘Cookie’ Harris remembered as passionate advocate for life
Sylvia “Cookie” Harris, one of the leading pro-life advocates in Maryland and a longtime parishioner of St. Joseph in Cockeysville, died suddenly Aug. 28, a few days before what would have been her 58th birthday.
Westminster pastor honored as ‘Man for All Seasons’
Michael May, a former president of the St. Thomas More Society who has known Monsignor Farmer for 48 years, described his friend as someone who has always had an innate ability to see the good in everyone and an “extraordinary empathy for anyone he ever met.”
Good Friday pilgrims pray for life outside Baltimore abortion clinic
Catholics prayed the rosary outside a Planned Parenthood on March 29.
Amen: Telling questions for pregnant women
My brother was in line at a local supermarket when he observed a young woman strike up a conversation with an apparent longtime friend. Showing off her slightly protruding belly, the younger woman announced that she was pregnant.
Archbishop O’Brien leads Good Friday pro-life walk
As at least seven women entered a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on Howard Street in Baltimore April 10, about 200 Catholics stood on the opposite side of the street and peacefully prayed for them and their unborn children.
Ravens’ Matt Birk speaks up for life
“It seems like our society and media want to push pro-lifers to the side and hope that we would shut our mouths and go away quietly,” said Birk, whose 6’4’’, 310-pound frame struck a distinct figure among the hundreds of marchers who filed through downtown streets. “Let’s not do that.”
Judge Garbis rules Baltimore pregnancy center sign law unconstitutional
U.S. District Court Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled Jan. 28 in Baltimore that it is unconstitutional to require pro-life pregnancy centers to post signs with language mandated by the government.