UNPLANNED The Movie

Thursday or Friday, March 28/29 @ 7:20p - Click for details

As Catholics for Life we:

• Entrust to Mary, bright dawn of the new world and Mother of the living, the cause of life
• Vow to proclaim the Gospel of Life with honesty and love to the people of our time
• Accept the Gospel of Life as a gift ever new
• Celebrate the Gospel of Life with gratitude throughout our lives, and
• Bear witness to the Gospel of Life resolutely, in order to build, together with all people of good will, the civilization of truth and love.

All this we do to the praise and glory of God, the Creator and lover of life.
(Adapted from Evangelium Vitae, Saint John Paul)

CLICK FOR: Bishop Conlon's Message on Abortion Legislation

Can’t believe that the abortion bills in Illinois are all that bad? You’re sure that it’s just hype, and everything will be fine? Read the HB2495 bill for yourself at http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/HB/10100HB2495lv.htm and decide if you agree with this summary:

All restrictions on abortion are removed. Only the "pregnant individual" (they removed "mother" and "woman" from the definitions!) can decide (at any age--parental notification is revoked), all abortion statistics are now secret (no FOIA requests), doctors can't be disciplined for abortions on women who aren't even pregnant, and coroners can't investigate deaths at abortion clinics (women or children).

House Bill 2467 & Senate Bill 1594

• Repeals Illinois Parental Notification of Abortion Act. This current law requires a parent or legal guardian be notified when a minor seeks an abortion.

House Bill 2495 & Senate Bill 1942

• Repeals the current state ban on partial-birth abortions.
• Defines abortion as a fundamental right.
• Removes abortion clinics from regulations for serious medical procedures.
• Removes the requirement that only doctors can perform abortions.

Links for Parishioners

• Find your representative
• Draft message for lawmakers

More information!:  

• See the Supporting Document above left: Spring 2019 Illinois Abortion Bills
• Go to the Pro-Life Action League website
• Go to the Illinois Right to Life website

A person's a person, no matter how small.
~ Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who ~

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love,
but to use violence to get what they want.
That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.
~ Blessed Mother Teresa ~

The profound moral question is not, "Do they [murderers] deserve to die?"
but "Do we deserve to kill them?"
~ Sister Helen Prejean ~