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Pro-life pregnancy centers find right formula to give expectant mothers a sense of security and support both before and after their children are born. In the process, they are lowering the abortion rates in their communities. >NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGES 6-8 JANUARY 20, 2013 40 YEARS AFTER ROE: SAVING LIVES

MORE PRO-LIFE STORIES Four decades after landmark ruling, pro-life activists of all generations work to promote sanctity of all human life. >SPECIAL SECTION, PAGES 9-16

Pro-lifers face challenge of changing Author-activist Monica Migliorino hearts of Americans who oppose abortion, Miller discusses book about her but favor keeping it legal. radical response to abortion. >NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE 4 >FAITH, PAGES 18-19

VOLUME 101, NO. 38 • $3.00 WWW.OSV.COM ABOVE: WOMEN’S CARE CENTER FOUNDATION; LEFT: CNS 2 JANUARY 20, 2013 IN THIS ISSUE OUR SUNDAY VISITOR OPENERS | MARYANN GOGNIAT EIDEMILLER Dismissing ‘the big lie’ that abortion provides a better life uring my interview with tend you were never the mother The father of the baby never son together. and too old now. Dr. Day Gardner for the of a child.” had a chance to make it right, That marriage ended in- di But again, she chose life. articlesD in this week’s Respect Many of us know of someone though he wanted to, because vorce and annulment decades That unplanned baby is Life special section (Pages who has had an abortion, and my friend’s controlling mother later, and the woman was en- nearly 23 years old and is a trea- 9-16), she talked about “the big we all know someone who was forced her to “go away” and joying great freedom. Her sons sure to her mother, just like her lie” that pregnant women have challenged with an unplanned place the baby for adoption. She were grown, she was doing well unplanned brother and their been told — that if you have an or difficult pregnancy. It’s never was 20. professionally and was free brother in between. abortion “you can go on and easy. Three years before that, an- to travel and do whatever she No career opportunities, have a better life.” I’m old enough to remem- other girl, only 17, had a bet- wanted. travel or so-called freedom But, she stressed, life does ber when being pregnant out ter outcome. She successfully Enter another marriage and, could have been worth more not suddenly improve after of wedlock was socially unac- fought to graduate at a time at age 44, an unplanned preg- than the blessings that that having an abortion. Women ceptable, and although abor- when pregnant girls were per- nancy. She was shocked at how woman’s children bring to her still struggle with finances and tions were illegal, they were manently kicked out of high many friends suggested abor- life, or the love that she has for a host of personal, cultural and still available. But in those days, school, but she canceled her tion. They said that she gave up them and from them. societal problems. girls often were sent away under college plans to become an Eng- her life for one baby when she By the way, that 23-year- “The only thing that will the cover of lies that few be- lish/lit teacher. was 17, and at 44, was she going old is my daughter, and back change if they abort their baby,” lieved. Her parents helped her with to give it up again for another? in 1963, I was that pregnant she said, “is that she will still be In my good friend’s case, she the baby, she got a job as a Abortion, they told her, was no 17-year-old kid. a mother, only now, she will be went out of state “to take care newspaper reporter, and soon big deal, and certainly in line the mother of a dead child. It of a sick aunt,” but was really married a man who adopted with pro-choice excuses, she Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller doesn’t do you any good to pre- in a Catholic foundling home. her son. They later had another was too young the first time, writes from Pennsylvania.

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IN PHOTOS IN BRIEF IN QUOTES Los Angeles officials’ names to be released “The government is The Archdiocese of Los Angeles must reveal the forcing us to choose names of Church officials included in 30,000 pages of between following personnel files that will be released with information our faith and fol- related to allegations of child sexual abuse by Church lowing the law. I say employees, Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias ruled Jan. 7, reversing a previous ruling by a retired federal that’s a choice no judge who had said that material to be released should American — and no have names redacted to prevent the documents’ use American business — to “embarrass or ridicule the Church.” A statement by should have to make.” the archdiocese said it would abide by the judge’s de- — David Green, CEO of cision. Attorneys for the archdiocese said at a Dec. 10 Hobby Lobby, which could hearing before Elias that there were about 69 files that face huge fines for not com- SYRIAN REFUGEES: A Syrian refugee hangs a carpet outside plying with the HHS mandate. her tent in late December at a refugee camp near the Turk- were believed to meet the criteria for release. ish town of Kilis. Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., Vatican card payments who traveled to the Turkish-Syrian border, said Catholic Relief Vatican City State vendors, in- MILESTONES Services programs are focusing on refugees living outside of cluding the Vatican Museums the camps because they do not benefit from the government and supermarket, stopped ac- Pope Benedict services and are the most in need. cepting credit- and debit-card XVI accepted the payments Jan. 1, citing techni- resignation of Bishop cal difficulties amid unofficial Joseph A. Galante, reports of regulatory concerns 74, of Camden, N.J., by Italian financial authori- and named Auxiliary ties. Bishop Dennis J. Sulli- van, 67, of New York to “The fear of God Papal events’ popularity succeed him Jan. 8. He frees us from the fear More than 2.35 million pil- appointed Msgr. David grims and visitors joined P. Talley, 62, as auxiliary of men.” Pope Benedict XVI for an au- bishop of Atlanta Jan. 3. dience, liturgy or prayer at the — Pope Benedict XVI on Jan. Vatican or Castel Gandolfo Aquinas College 6 in St. Peter’s Basilica. in 2012, the Vatican said. The named Bill Smart asso- 2012 total was down by about ciate provost and Aaron 200,000 from the number of Urbanczyk dean of the visitors reported in 2011. School of Arts and Sci- “Americans should CLEANING UP: Members of street gangs take part in a clean- ences. not be forced to ing effort to remove graffiti during an event organized by the HHS mandate update Church in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 4. In March, in a deal The University of Notre Dame pay for experiments backed by the Catholic Church, rival gangs called for a truce. has had its lawsuit against the the formal visits of bishops Department of Health and from every country in the that destroy human Human Services mandate world and will begin the cycle life, have produced BY THE NUMBERS rejected as being premature. all over again by meeting the Meanwhile, Catholic busi- heads of Italy’s 227 dioceses in no real-world treat- RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION IN CONGRESS nessman Tom Monaghan was 2013. granted a temporary injunc- ments, and violate The 113th Congress, sworn in Jan. 3, is diverse religiously, with tion against the mandate, federal law ...” the first Buddhist to serve in the Senate and the first Hindu to German bishops on arms which requires employers to Germany’s Catholic bishops serve in either chamber. Here is a look at the combined religious cover artificial contraceptions criticized the country’s grow- — Steven H. Aden of Alliance makeup of the House and the Senate: and abortion-inducing drugs. ing arms industry and urged Defending Freedom on a case greater commitment to set- challenging embryonic stem 56.1% – Protestant (299) Pledges to pray Rosary tling the world’s armed con- cell research funding, which 30.6% – Catholic (163) More than 80,000 people flicts. The message was in- the High Court rejected Jan. 7. 6.2% – Jewish (33) have pledged to pray the Ro- cluded in a 24-page bishops’ 2.8% – Mormon (15) sary daily, with their names conference brochure for the recorded in a book presented Jan. 1 World Day of Peace. to Pope Benedict XVI. Father “May our Lord bestow 0.9% – Orthodox (5) John Phalen, president of the SSPX-Vatican relations his healing grace upon 0.6% – Buddhist (3) Massachusetts-based Holy Bishop Bernard Fellay, supe- Cross Family Ministries, pre- rior general of the Society of Bishop D’Arcy and sented a book recording their St. Pius X, said he has been re- pledges to the pope in De- ceiving mixed messages from grant him strength 0.4% – Muslim (2) cember during the Ecclesia in 0.2% – Hindu (1) the Vatican on whether the and inner peace.” America international con- group might be brought back 0.2% – Unitarian (1) gress at the Vatican. into full communion with the — Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades 0.2% – Una liated (1) Church and claimed that top of Fort Wayne-South Bend, 1.9% – Refused to say (10) Pope completes ad limina Vatican officials told him not Ind., praying for his predeces- Pope Benedict XVI has hosted to be discouraged. sor, Bishop John D’Arcy, who is CNS, CNA, Religion News Service, AP, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Patheos undergoing cancer treatment. 4 JANUARY 20, 2013 NEWS ANALYSIS OUR SUNDAY VISITOR ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARY Pro-lifers can expect challenging years ahead Vital actions are fighting pro-abortion initiatives, communicating pro-life message more effectively

By Russell Shaw for those who may want it. In With the 40th anniversary that sense, they’re pro-choice. of the Supreme Court decision The support for legalized legalizing abortion in America abortion also reflects another now at hand, it’s a truism that basic fact. Americans collec- Americans are divided on abor- tively have a hands-off attitude tion. when it comes to passing nega- Equally true, but perhaps tive judgment on other people’s less obvious at first, is that the moral choices about most mat- divisions exist not only between ters, even when those choices people on op- happen to posite sides of be ones with the issue but RELATED which they often, it seems, READING themselves within people’s disagree. minds and See our Respect Life This highly Pro-life advocates pray outside a clinic that performs abortions in Green Bay, Wis. CNS photo hearts. special section for more nonjudgmen- This second, coverage of the pro-life tal approach important issue in the 2012 deeply rooted movement 40 years after is sometimes election, spending $31 million BEHIND THE NUMBERS kind of divi- legalization of abortion expressed by on abortion-related campaign in Roe v. Wade. On May 23, Gallup released the findings of a survey on sion may be saying that ads against the Republicans’ $8 Americans’ views of abortion, showing that a record low the largest fac- “thou shalt million. number consider themselves “pro-choice,” down from 56 ing the pro-life not judge” is the Democratic candidates percent in 1996. movement in its efforts to re- “eleventh commandment” for pressed the pro-choice theme store protection to the unborn. many Americans. When ap- as part of an effort to depict plied to an issue such as abor- the GOP as waging “war on A tale of two polls tion, it’s expressed by saying, women” — an effort unwitting- Pro-Life 50% Two polls last year serve to “I’m personally opposed, but I ly abetted by clumsy remarks illustrate the problem. wouldn’t impose my views on about abortion and rape by In May, a Gallup poll found anybody else.” unsuccessful Republican Sen- Pro-Choice 50 percent of the respondents ate candidates in Missouri and 41% describing themselves as “pro- Indiana. Pro-abortion might 0 10 20 30 40 50 life” and only 41 percent saying Back on Jan. 22, 1973, seven Also during the campaign, they were “pro-choice” on abor- of the Supreme Court’s nine Planned Parenthood, the na- tion. The pro-life figure was one justices had no such qualms in tion’s largest abortion provider, The same poll asked respondents if abortion should be legal percentage point short of the voting to overturn all existing spent about $15 million — more in all circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances record high of 51 percent three U.S. laws against abortion and than three times what it spent or illegal in all circumstances. Here is how they responded: years earlier, while the 41 per- imposing a regime of legal- in 2008 — on political advertis- cent figure of those who were ized abortion nationwide (Roe ing and other campaign-related Legal under certain Legal under all Illegal in pro-choice was a record low. v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton). Abor- activities. circumstances circumstances all circumstances But on Nov. 6, exit polls tion supporters were quick to The organization identified a found 59 percent of Americans spread the word that the issue million women considered like- saying abortion should be legal was settled once and for all: The ly to support legalized abortion 52% 25% 20% in all or most cases, against 36 Supreme Court had spoken, and the contraceptive mandate Source: Gallup Poll percent who said it should be il- and legal abortion was the law in the new federal health care legal. of the land — period. law, and targeted them with How can we explain the dif- Considered only from that repeated appeals to get out and House and Senate — than it Last November, the U.S. ference? Flawed polling tech- point of view, the rise and per- vote. Some 98 percent of elec- is to fight new pro-abortion bishops adopted a new “pastoral niques? A huge and abrupt shift sistence of the pro-life move- tion contests in which Planned initiatives by the Obama ad- strategy” on life, marriage and in people’s attitudes away from ment has been nothing short Parenthood was involved — in- ministration. That includes op- religious liberty that, if success- opposition to abortion to sup- of remarkable. Numerous laws cluding the Obama re-election posing Senate confirmation of ful, could be a step toward that. port of it? restricting or limiting the per- campaign — turned out as the pro-choice candidates whom Elements of the plan, which Almost certainly not. In- formance of abortion have been group wanted. As a result, at- the president may name to the began after Christmas, include stead, the reason for the differ- enacted in states. The Supreme tempts to cut off federal fund- Supreme Court. monthly Eucharistic holy hours ence most likely lies in some- Court itself in 2007 upheld a ing for Planned Parenthood For the long pull, the chal- in parishes, daily family Rosa- thing social scientists have 2003 federal law banning late have no chance of success for lenge for the pro-life movement ry, prayers of the faithful at all noted about Americans for term “partial-birth” abortions the foreseeable future. lies in facing up to the fact that Masses, fasting and abstinence years. On the one hand, a solid (Gonzales v. Carhart) and, as large numbers of Americans from meat on Fridays and a sec- plurality — and sometimes a currently constituted, appears Reaching hearts who are personally opposed to ond “Fortnight for Freedom” majority — are themselves op- split on abortion. Against this background, abortion favor keeping it legal. next summer. posed to abortion in most cases. But President Barack Obama the pro-life movement’s task at Here the Catholic Church can The power of prayer vs. at- In that sense, they’re pro-life. and his administration are sol- the federal level in the next four play an important role by using tack ads? We’ll see how that But a solid majority, evidently idly pro-abortion — the most years is less to win new restric- more effective methods of com- plays out. including many of the same overtly pro-abortion presi- tions on abortion — a virtually municating the pro-life mes- people, favor keeping abortion dent and administration ever. impossible goal with the Dem- sage than it sometimes has in Russell Shaw is an legally available in most cases Democrats made abortion an ocrats in charge in the White the past. OSV contributing editor. OUR SUNDAY VISITOR NEWS ANALYSIS JANUARY 20, 2013 5

ASIAN CHURCH Vietnam meeting a sign of warmer ties with Holy See Country hosted assembly of Asian bishops’ conferences to discuss evangelization challenges

By Gerard O’Connell FABC’s history since Pope Paul Vietnam took another sig- VI approved its establishment nificant step forward in its rela- in 1972. He evoked the Gospel tions with the Catholic Church image of Jesus the Good Shep- last month when it hosted the herd who leaves the 99 sheep to 10th Plenary Assembly of the go out and find the lost one, and Federation of Asian Bishops observed that since only 3 per- Conferences (FABC). cent of Asia’s 3.8 billion people The FABC, a fruit of the are Christian, “the Church in Second Vatican Council, is the Asia has a kind of reverse chal- umbrella organization of the 19 lenge, it leaves the one in its fold Catholic bishops’ conferences as it tries to reach out to the and nine associate members other 99.” from 28 countries in Asia, a The official opening - cer continent where 60 percent of emony, which took place after the world’s population live, 3 Mass, showcased the presence percent of whom are Christian. of government officials from Vietnam’s Religious Affairs Bu- Significance of location reau, including Deputy Interior “It’s an absolutely historic Minister Pham Dung, who ex- event. The government in- pressed Vietnam’s appreciation vited us. I am very for the helpful role Women pray during Mass in St. Joseph Cathedral in Hanoi, Vietnam, in this April 2012 photo. hopeful,” Cardinal played by Catholics Newscom photo Oswald Gracias, and the Catholic 67, archbishop of Church in the cul- Nhon of Hanoi, president of Mumbai, India, and tural, political and the Vietnamese Catholic Bish- ABOUT THE FEDERATION the FABC’s secre- moral growth of ops’ Conference, urged the China was the big absentee from the Vietnam meeting, as tary general, told the country. Catho- FABC and the Church in Asia it is from the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences. Our Sunday Visitor lics make up about to strengthen its triple dialogue: Cardinal John Tong of Hong Kong, in his homily at Mass before the Dec. 10- 7 percent of Viet- with the poor, with the religions 16 assembly. “I don’t nam’s population of and with the cultures of Asia, on Dec. 13, asked delegates at the Vietnam meeting, ““May I anticipate any major 85 million. particularly when confronted ask for your prayers to bring us help to resolve the difficulties problems. I’m very by forces of globalization and encountered in China-Vatican relations.” keen that it goes off Continent’s secularization that undermine The FABC includes 19 bishops’ conferences from Ban- successfully for the Cardinal Rosales megatrends people’s traditions and values. gladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, sake of the Church in Vietnam. During the assembly, par- The document was finalized Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Myanmar, This will be a great moment be- ticipants discussed a 30-page at the Vietnam meeting. It will Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, Thai- cause we are meeting in a coun- document prepared by Filipino now serve as a roadmap for the land and Vietnam. try where the Church is small Archbishop Orlando Quevedo Church in Asia over the next Nine other countries are affiliated: Hong Kong, Macau, but full of vitality, and we want on the theme “The FABC at 40 four years. Mongolia, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia (Russia), Tajikistan, to be with them. People real- Years: Responding to the Chal- Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. ize the importance of going to lenges of Asia,” which reviewed Warming relations Vietnam.” the FABC’s achievements Earlier, Cardinal Gracias Seventy-one cardinals, arch- and explored the directions told OSV the relations between major breakthrough in Viet- tion and health services. Con- bishops and bishops from 22 it should take in the future. It the Holy See and Vietnam “are nam-Holy See relations. It was cerns have been raised, too, at countries were among the 100 listed “megatrends” that “shape improving,” a view endorsed by the first time since the com- the government’s recent decree delegates at the opening Eucha- the evangelizing mission of the a senior Vatican official. munists came to power in April governing religious organiza- ristic celebration and ceremony Church in Asia”: globalization, After the historic visits of the 1975 that the Holy See has been tions. at Xuan Loc Pastoral Center, culture, poverty, migrants and country’s prime minister and able to have an official represen- Nevertheless, the Holy See Dong Nai Province, northeast refugees, indigenous peoples, president to the pope, Vietnam tative accredited to the country. and the Vietnamese Church of Ho Chi Minh City, on Dec. population, religious freedom, and the Holy See agreed to set Since then, Archbishop Gire- leadership are confident that 11. threats to life, social commu- up a bilateral commission to lli has been able to visit all the with goodwill on both sides, Representatives from the nication, ecology, laity, women, prepare the path for the estab- country’s 26 dioceses, and meet the different problems can be bishops’ conferences of Ocea- youth, Pentecostalism and vo- lishment of full diplomatic rela- Church leaders and senior gov- resolved through patient dia- nia, Europe and Latin America, cations. tions. ernment officials at the national logue. and the heads of the various It also offered a theological As a first step, in June 2010, and local levels. He was also While the establishment of FABC offices were also pres- basis for the Church’s procla- the Vietnamese government present at the FABC plenary. full diplomatic relations is a ent, together with a Vietnamese mation and evangelizing mis- agreed that the Holy See could shared goal, a senior Vatican government delegation. sion, and briefly described the appoint a non-resident repre- Hope amid challenges official told OSV recently that Pope Benedict XVI desig- prophetic role of the Church sentative to the country. Pope Nobody denies that the “Vietnam appears to be not yet nated Cardinal Gaudencio Ro- embodied in a New Evange- Benedict designated Archbish- Church in Vietnam still has ready for this step,” but he felt sales, archbishop emeritus of lization based on the FABC’s op Leopoldo Girelli for this post some outstanding problems confident it would happen in Manila, as his special envoy to understanding of a “new way of in January 2011, naming him with the authorities there, relat- the not-too-distant future. the assembly, and the cardinal being Church in Asia.” also nuncio to Singapore, where ed to property and the Church’s presided at the opening Mass. Commenting on the text, he resides. and Catholics’ roles in society, Gerard O’Connell writes In his homily, he recalled the Archbishop Peter Nguyen Van His appointment marked a especially in the field of educa- from Rome. 6 JANUARY 20, 2013 NEWS ANALYSIS OUR SUNDAY VISITOR DIGNITY OF LIFE Centers give support, sense of security to pregnant women During their pregnancy and afterward, they are given the resources they need for their families

By Michelle Martin Center with helping her think When Angela Grimm was a through her options and come 19-year-old freshman at Mar- up with a plan. It also provided quette University in Milwau- parenting classes. kee, she took a home pregnancy Her work on goal-setting test, and confirmed she was and learning about parenting carrying a baby. earned her credits for a crib and But she didn’t know how other baby equipment provided far along she was, or what she by the center. wanted to do about it. So she She’s still in school at Mar- made an appointment at a local quette, with plans to graduate Planned Parenthood clinic, fig- in 2014. She’s already brought uring that at the very least she a friend with an unexpected could get some information. pregnancy to the Women’s Care “I wanted just to go and see Center, and she willingly shares an ultrasound,” she said. After her story in hopes of encourag- paying $75, she got an ultra- ing more people to take advan- sound — but never got to see tage of their services. the images. “They really brought a sense “They told me I was at 19 of security,” Grimm said. “Be- weeks, and I had very little time ing young, and with so many to make a decision. So I sched- big unknowns, they really A client’s baby smiles as the mother and child look at clothing at a Women’s Care Center location. uled the appointment for an helped me figure out what to Photos courtesy of Women’s Care Center Foundation abortion,” she told Our Sunday do.” Visitor. ON THE WEB Before she went back, she Unconditional support ended up at the Stories like Women’s Care Center: Women’s Care Cen- Grimm’s are music www.womenscarecenter. ter across the street to the people behind org from the clinic. the Women’s Care The center is one of Center. With near- The Women’s Center: 19 locations of the ly a score of loca- www.womens-center.org largest network of tions in four states, USCCB Pro-Life Ac- pregnancy resource the Women’s Care tivities: www.usccb.org/ centers in the Unit- Center has found a about/pro-life-activities/ ed States. Many of formula that works. them, like the one In 2012, an estimat- in Milwaukee, are ed 22,000 women direct responsibility for them. It located within sight came through the doesn’t cost anything for a cen- Williams of abortion facili- doors of its sites, ter to be a licensee, but it must ties in hopes of giving desperate making a total of 90,000 visits. follow the Women’s Care Cen- women a glimpse of hope. The centers are Catholic- ter policies and procedures, and For Grimm, the Women’s based, with Bishop Kevin C. be able to be self-supporting in Care Center offered a place Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort terms of donations and fund- where she could share her Wayne-South Bend, Ind., on raising. As with the other cen- thoughts and concerns and find the Women’s Care Center’s ters, many of the start-up costs, understanding. She received a governing board, and all of its including training for counsel- free, on-the-spot ultrasound, services are in line with Church ors, is paid for with grants. where she got to see her baby teaching, although volunteers But unlike some pregnancy son for the first time. and the women they serve may resource centers run by evan- “I didn’t know that by that be of any faith. gelical Christian churches, it Ann Manion, Women’s Care Center Foundation board presi- time, he was pretty well devel- Two more centers — in Peo- does not preach to its clients, dent, cuddles with children during a parenting class. oped,” she said. ria, Ill., and Duluth, Minn. — said Ann Manion, president She also learned that the are scheduled to open this year, of the Women’s Care Center by most Catholic-backed preg- that,” she said. abortion she had thought would with the support of Catholic Foundation board. nancy resource centers, includ- Its counselors share informa- be a simple procedure would organizations such as the Our “We meet them where they ing the Women’s Center, which tion that conforms to Church instead involve killing the fetus Sunday Visitor Institute and are,” she said. “Our approach is has three sites in the Chicago teaching: that every life is a gift and then inducing labor. She committed Catholic groups in really what you would call a sec- area. The center is clear about and has dignity that must be never went back to the abortion their own communities. The ular approach. We just work to its Catholic identity: While it preserved. But the women who clinic. Our Sunday Visitor Institute love and serve women in crisis. serves women of all faiths, it come also have dignity that About a year and a half later, has helped with 10 grants since When a scared teenager comes has a perpetual Eucharistic ad- must be respected, Strom told her son, Weston, is a healthy 1993, most often to help with to us, the last thing she needs is oration chapel onsite at its main OSV. 1-year-old, getting around and start-up costs for new centers. a sermon. We need to be there office, and executive director “We treat each individual as getting into things. She and her Now the Women’s Care Cen- to love her unconditionally.” Mary Strom credits the power just that, an individual,” Strom boyfriend are still together and ter Foundation is using a new of prayer for much of its suc- said. “We don’t prejudge their sharing parenting duties, and model for expansion, licensing Power of prayer cess. she credits the Women’s Care new centers rather than taking That’s the approach taken “Everything comes from Continued on Page 8 Secure your future with a Gi„ Annuity through the Society of the Little Flower For over 80 years, annuities through the Society of the Little Flower have been safe and secure. With our excellent rate of return, you can be assured knowing that you will receive income for the rest of your life.

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For the first time since the term “New Evangelization” A client smiles as she sees an ultrasound of her baby at the Women’s Care Center location in was coined by Blessed John Paul II, 250 bishops Elkhart, Ind. Photo courtesy of Women’s Care Center from all over the world were called to Rome by Pope Benedict XVI to discuss it, define it, and determine Continued from Page 6 BY THE NUMBERS what it really means to Catholics today. In an circumstances, or even pretend exclusive first-hand summary of the three-week to understand what they are go- The percentage that abortions have Synod, a leader of the gathering, Cardinal Donald ing through. We listen, we start declined in Fort Wayne, Ind., since asking questions to get to know 63% Women’s Care Center opened its first Wuerl, provides a succinct, specific and tactical location in the city in 2004. Women’s Care roadmap for where Catholics, parishes, and dioceses the person. What are the driv- ing factors that lead them to be- Center currently has three centers in the go from here. lieve abortion would be the best city, which now has 495 fewer abortions choice, or the only choice?” every year. C a r d i n a l Wu e r l a l s o s h a r e s h o w h i s p e r s o n a l Although such centers offer The decline in the percentage of abortions faith-sharing experiences shaped his own view of nothing but help for pregnant in South Bend, Ind., area. There are 700 the New Evangelization. women in need, they have been 55% fewer abortions performed every year in criticized for misleading wom- the area than there were in 1998. en who might think they pro- vide abortions. In California, they now must post signs say- The decline in the abortion rate in ing they neither perform abor- Milwaukee since Women’s Care Center tions nor provide referrals for opened a center in 2010 across the street abortions. 23% from the largest abortion clinic in the state Pro-woman approach of Wisconsin. Most of the women who Source: Women’s Care Center come in and have an ultrasound choose to carry their pregnan- cies to term — 97 percent at the through medical partners, the “We don’t want to be bring- $4.95 center Grimm visited in Mil- others offer referrals for care, ing babies into the world and waukee. Abortion rates in com- as well as for all of the other have unprepared young moth- munities where Women’s Care things a pregnant young wom- ers,” Manion said. Centers are located have de- an might need, such as housing “We do put a lot of emphasis clined (see sidebar), and a clinic and financial assistance. on practical assistance after the that performed late-term abor- The centers offer prenatal birth,” Williams said. The most tions in Niles, Mich., closed in vitamins — since there is of- important thing is to show

Inventory No. T1403 No. Inventory October 2012. It was located ten a wait for doctor appoint- pregnant women in crisis that next door to a Women’s Care ments — counseling to help the they matter. Center. women (and the fathers if they “With most pro-life groups, Kindle and Nook versions available! “This is where the women want it) to set goals and devel- it’s all about ‘save the baby,’” come. This is where the hearts op plans to achieve them, and Williams told OSV. “Ours is a 1-800-348-2440 Ext. 2175 are touched, and this is where child development and parent- uniquely pro-woman approach. the minds are changed,” said ing classes. Moms’ groups help … Regardless of folks’ political Bobby Williams, director of the women meet others who are in affiliations, or what they think, Women’s Care Center Foun- the same situation. we’re winning. A lot of times dation. “It’s important that it’s Those who participate get the pro-lifers are kind of down done right.” coupons to shop in the “Crib and disappointed. What we When women call, they are Club,” where they can get like to focus on are the positive encouraged to come in for a brand-new baby equipment. things.” medical-grade pregnancy test Centers also have some donat- and an ultrasound. While two ed used items for mothers who Michelle Martin writes A31BBO63 centers offer onsite prenatal care need them. from Illinois. Four decades after ruling, Meet pro-life activists 40 and Catholics’ dedication to pro-lifers see reasons for hope younger who are determined to the pro-life movement in pro-life movement keep sanctity of life at forefront. spans the generations. > Page 10 > Pages 11-13 > Pages 14-15

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as landmark ruling hits milestone, pro-life activists vow to 40continue fight for the dignity of all human life 10 JANUARY 20, 2013 RESPECT LIFE OUR SUNDAY VISITOR HISTORY Four decades after Roe, the fight for life continues Legalized abortion remains the law of the land, but there have been reasons for encouragement lately

By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller gave women the constitutional v. Wade was passed, the Doe By her own later admission, right to abortion, based on an v. Bolton decision defined -ma REASONS FOR HOPE Norma Leah McCorvey lied implied right to privacy in the ternal health (a cause for abor- Dr. Day Gardner is associate director of the National Pro- about getting raped as a ruse to Ninth and 14th Amendments. tion) as “all factors — physi- Life Center, the former national director of Black Ameri- comply with the Texas law per- Among other points, the cal, emotional, psychological, cans for Life and is the founder mitting abortion in instances court said that the fetus was a familial and the woman’s age and president of The National of rape. But she had no proof “potential life” but not a person, — relevant to the well-being of Black Pro-Life Union. She spoke that her pregnancy had resulted and, therefore, had no rights of the patient.” In other words, the about the past and future of the from a crime, so she was unable its own. right to abortion beyond the pro-life movement with Our Sun- to terminate her third child. The decision also defined the first trimester was expanded to day Visitor. The year was 1969, and two conditions permitting or pro- include any vague definition of Dallas attorneys took up her hibiting abortion during the “maternal health.” Our Sunday Visitor: What are case to challenge the pro-life pregnancy. The woman’s right the greatest pro-life achievements laws in Texas. The case ended to privacy in the first trimester Encouraging victories in the past 40 years? up in the U.S. Supreme Court was so strong that it was un- There have been numerous with McCorvey, as plaintiff, regulated, thereby establishing court decisions and challenges Dr. Day Gardner: Awareness. given the anonymous name of abortion on demand. In the in the past 40 years, many filed I think we have educated most of Jane Roe, with the defendant in second trimester, states could by the pro-life movement and America regarding what a baby is. Gardner the suit being District Attorney regulate abortion only to pro- resulting in support of the right Of course, we hear a child being referred to as an embryo or Henry Wade of Dallas County. tect the loosely-defined health to life of the unborn. Despite fetus, words other than saying baby. But with modern tech- McCorvey gave birth to the of the mother. In the third tri- setbacks, the victories in recent nology, we see images of what a child looks like. The child in baby in the meantime, so for mester, a state could regulate years have been encouraging. the womb is no longer thought of as a lump of flesh. her, the ensuing legal battle was abortion to promote the inter- According to the Wash- Another thing is, we have come to realize that no one no longer moot. But on Jan. est of the viable or potentially ington Times (Nov. 29, 2012), group is going to make an awful lot of difference. We have to 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade became viable fetus. more than 500 new pro-life the landmark decision that At the same time that Roe bills were introduced across work together — the white community, the black and His- the country in 2011, with more panic communities — so that we grow in numbers. PRO-LIFE EVENTS than 90 becoming law — a 50 percent increase over previous OSV: Why is this particularly important to minorities? years. Another 350 new pro-life bills were introduced in 2012, Gardner: Abortion facilities are placed in minority and more than 60 became law. neighborhoods and around college campuses, and these Among them were 38 specifi- communities are specifically targeted. They make sure that cally on abortion and 11 that there are blacks working there. Blacks and people in the inner provided legal recognition and cities are led to believe that if you find yourself pregnant, it’s protection of the unborn out- going to basically ruin your life, so the best thing to do is get side abortion, for instance a bill an abortion. But that’s not the best for the child and that’s not in South Carolina protecting the best for the mothers, either. One is injured and the other infants from failed abortions. is dead. Another 25 bills considered halting state funding for abor- OSV: How has the pro-life movement responded? tion. In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a budget bill Gardner: The other side tries to make it seem like you are that earmarked $7.5 million to going to be out there all alone with no one to help. The truth People march in the 2010 Walk for Life West Coast. CNS Planned Parenthood and other is, pro-life groups are out there with many ways to help moth- family-planning organizations. ers and their children. It’s not just the initial issue of saving This month, pro-lifers on both coasts will process and pray In the matter of the Afford- the baby’s life, but also helping the child and mother to grow able Care Act, 13 states intro- for an end to abortion. in better care for the baby. One of the most important things duced resolutions opposing In Washington, D.C., a national prayer service will take is to make sure that mothers understand that there is hope mandates for insurance com- place at 8:30 a.m. at Constitution Hall before the 40th out there, that we love our children, and that there is never a annual March for Life on Jan. 25. “After 40 years of legal panies to fully cover abortion- inducing drugs. Other states reason to kill your baby. I think more people are beginning to abortion, and the misery it has brought to untold millions of understand that it’s not the end of the world to have a child. American women, men and families, we want to have one of (Alabama, Wisconsin, South Dakota and South Carolina) the largest expressions ever of communal repentance and OSV: What does the future hold? fervent intercession for an end to abortion in our nation,” opted out of the pro-abortion Father Frank Pavone, president of the National Pro-Life provisions to prevent funding abortions through insurance Gardner: I think all the reasons that people had abor- Religious Council, said in a statement. plans in their states. tions, or felt they needed to have one, are leaving. There are For more information, visit www.nationalprayerservice. The life-affirming list goes going to be more and more people saying, “What’s the big com and www.marchforlife.com. on: state monies were allocated deal anymore?” about having a baby. I really believe we will In San Francisco, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apos- for pregnancy centers, and laws see an end to abortion. My prayer is that Roe v. Wade will be tolic nuncio to the United States, will attend the ninth annual were passed to regulate abor- overturned. Walk for Life West Coast, which will take place at 12:30 p.m. tion facilities, to require paren- Jan. 26 at Civic Center Plaza. The event includes a rally tal notification and more. featuring actress Jennifer O’Neill giving her testimonial and As for McCorvey, she later mind about abortion, was bap- active in the pro-life movement. several other speakers before the march. claimed that two ambitious law- tized a Christian in 1995 and Visit walkforlifewc.com for more information. yers had used her as “a pawn” in in 1998 was received into the Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller Roe v. Wade. She changed her Catholic Church. She remains writes from Pennsylvania. OUR SUNDAY VISITOR RESPECT LIFE JANUARY 20, 2013 11

FAR FROM ‘SETTLED’ “If we wish to build true peace, how can we separate, or even set at odds, the protection On Jan. 23, 1973, The New York Times announced on its of the environment and the protection of human life, including the life of the unborn? front page that the Supreme Court had settled the abortion It is in man’s respect for himself that his sense of responsibility for creation is shown.” issue in American law. Forty years later our greatest victory ~ BENEDICT XVI, JANUARY 11, 2010 is that it is more unsettled than ever. For example, the last To learn more visit www.catholicclimatecovenant.org two years have seen unprecedented levels of activity by state legislatures seeking to limit abortion and show respect for the unborn child. Real College. Real Faith. Real Results. Another great legal victory has been a consistent policy, in Congress and most states, that government will Ravens Respect Life. not fund abortions and will protect the conscience rights of those who reject abortion. These longstanding policies are now at risk, especially through implementation of the new health care reform law, and our Doerflinger greatest challenge in the new year will be to preserve and improve them. It remains true that most Americans are basically pro-life and want greater protection for unborn human life than the Supreme Court allows and abortion rates continue to decline, especially among young people. We must build on this consensus and this promising trend to make further progress toward a culture of life. — Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director, Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

TESTIMONIALS Benedictine Students during the March for Life in 2012.

ATCHISON, KANSAS Be a Raven Catholics 40 and under WWW.BENEDICTINE.EDU dedicate themselves to 800-467-5340 working in pro-life cause They have lived with the effects ofRoe their entire MARY SAID lives and are determined to see an end to abortion YES TO GOD By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller clinics. When she lived in Ohio, Many in the pro-life move- she helped start a pro-life group ment were just born when Roe v. in her parish and designed their WILL YOU? Wade legalized abortion in the website. United States in 1973, and some Then she got married and GLENMARY SISTERS weren’t born until years later. had four children in four years, They never knew a time when it now ages 1 and a half to 5, and MINISTRY was illegal to end the life of an sometimes she takes them to unborn child, and they have al- rallies. CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY ways lived in the shadow of the “People have said to me, ‘You FEED THE HUNGRY • LOTHE C THE NAKED Supreme Court decision that are kind of living pro-life,’ and enabled abortion on demand. you might look at it that way,” GIVE DRINK TO THE THIRSTY Here, some share their stories. she said. SHELTER THE HOMELESS • ISIT V THE SICK Medley squeezes in volun- Jennifer Medley teering while she raises a fam- VISIT THOSE IN PRISON • URY B THE DEAD Jennifer Medley, 40, of Ash- ily, mostly working behind the land, Wis., has been in the pro- scenes on pro-life websites and life movement since she was a keeping connected with the teenager. She chose abortion for movement with prayer. a controversial topic in a pub- “What I’m seeing now is that lic high school speech class as- pro-life is less spoken about Call Us Today For Discernment Assistance. signment, and she participated from the pulpit and from the PHONE: 706-414-2982 • EMAIL: [email protected] in pro-life youth groups. She people,” she said. “I’m feeling became a Birthright counselor that there’s a kind of politi- WEB:www.glenmarysisters.org in her college years and prayed VOCATION FACILITATOR • P.O. Box 22264 • Owensboro, KY 42304-2264 the Rosary in front of abortion Continued on Page 12 12 JANUARY 20, 2013 RESPECT LIFE OUR SUNDAY VISITOR

Continued from Page 11 Join Us! women ffor Faith & Famiily cal correctness taking over the a clear voice for catholic women value of life and that people are 28 years of defending life, losing touch with what it’s all catholic teaching, about. It’s like they don’t want Family prayer to hurt anyone’s feelings about things like contraception and living together, either. People Learn more about us! visit us at seem to be giving the impres- wf-f..org sion that they wouldn’t do it, but they won’t tell anyone else Pray with us for Unborn Life! what to do.” Novena for the Protection of the Unborn That attitude may be rooted in the fear of turning people January 14-22 away from God, she said, but it’s also preventing people from Membership $25. contact us: speaking up for the unborn. call: 314 863 8385; e-mail: [email protected] Jennifer Medley and family. Courtesy of Jennifer Medley Po 300411, St. Louis, Mo 63130 Becky Visosky Eight years ago, Becky Vi- Visosky decries the false was afraid of my mother and I sosky was watching television freedom that many women be- didn’t have the voice to speak “Like” us on Facebook - Follow us on TwiTTer and complaining to her fiancé lieve abortion has given them. out.” about a news segment on abor- It’s tied in with loosening the She told her future husband tion. He said to her, “It’s really reins on sex and with “the new Darrell about it early in their kind of amazing that if people virtue of everyone having the dating, and he supported her believe that millions of children freedom to do whatever they journey to healing. are dying, that they aren’t doing want.” “He is the one who taught me more about [it].” “I think my en- that God is the one Visosky, 38, started re- tire gender has been who will be there searching abortion and, she sold a bill of goods,” for you,” she said. said, “I found ways to get off my she said. “But abor- “Everything is pos- couch.” tion really gave a sible as long as God She began volunteering with free ticket to men is the center of your Rachel’s Ministry and other who are no longer life.” pro-life ministries in the Dio- responsible. So you The couple now cese of Dallas, and three years have women stand- has six children, ago left a successful law practice ing outside abortion ages seven months to become the committee’s di- centers because they to 13, and Darrell, rector of communications. feel that they have 40, was ordained a “As an attorney, I could see no other option. The deacon four years Visosky that Roe v. Wade is grounded men in their lives ago. They are both in a misunderstanding of the don’t have any obligations, or coordinators of the Culture of Constitution, and this is not a may even be forcing them into Life in the Diocese of Pueblo, controversial view,” she said. abortions.” Colo., and are promoting the “But I think we have seen some Visosky hopes that in her abortion healing ministry of very positive developments, lifetime, abortion, like slavery, Project Rachel. like several years ago with the will become “an unthinkable” “Having an abortion — hav- Supreme Court’s opinion pro- thing to do. ing a child who is no longer hibiting partial birth abortion. with you — is something that There also has been an increas- Tammy Pagels never leaves you, no matter how ing recognition of the human- Tammy Pagels was 17 when much you pray every day,” she ity that abortion involves, and she became pregnant from a said. an increasing realization of the rape and her mother forced her Pagels came to a “different FRANCISCAN toll it takes on women, and not to have an abortion. place” in her life through con- just physical.” “I felt helpless,” she said. “I fession and Eucharistic adora- UNIVERSITY tion, and was able to forgive the man who raped her, her mother, OF STEUBENVILLE and herself. ACADEMICALLY EXCELLENT • PASSIONATELY CATHOLIC • PRO-LIFE “I want other people to hear my story because you never Human Life Studies Minor • Teaching Excellence • Dynamic Orthodoxy know if someone out there is 40+ Majors, 7 Graduate Programs • Students for Life Organization going through the same strug- gles that I went through,” she Franciscan University’s Tomb of the said. “I want to get out the mes- Unborn Child serves as a place of prayer sage to young people to respect for the end of abortion and as a place of life, and to remember that a healing for the survivors of abortion. child is God’s work, God’s cre- ation, from the moment of con- ception.” Pagels encourages prayers for mothers who had abortions, and for their children. “Pray Steubenville, Ohio that they have somewhere to go 800-783-6220 / www.franciscan.edu and someone to turn to,” she Deacon Darrell and Tammy Pagels. Courtesy of the Pagels said. OUR SUNDAY VISITOR RESPECT LIFE JANUARY 20, 2013 13

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Wade was passed, and hired as it grew and became the Magnifi cat, leads you on a rewarding journey Rachel’s Vineyard coordinator director, with Bishop Kevin J. of prayer and intercession in rhythm with the Lacy de la Garza was born 15 Farrell now at the helm. Church year. Novenas for the Church Year years later. Both of their genera- Several things changed in the is a collection of nearly 60 original novenas tions bring passion to the fight 40 years of pro-life witnessing. to protect the unborn. For one thing, Catholics started that you can use to feed your soul as you sidewalk counseling based on commemorate an astounding variety of holy Karen Garnett methods developed by Msgr. souls and holy days. Karen Garnett remembers Philip J. Reilly of the Precious when Roe v. Wade made abor- Blood Monastery in Brooklyn, Bring your fears, passions, worries, and tions legal. N.Y., founder of the Helpers of thanksgiving to God with a wide variety of “I remember the pastor was God’s Precious Infants. novenas including those in honor of: Mary the totally red in the face and he was “It calls for no confronta- Mother of God, Good Friday, The Most Sacred pounding his fist on the pulpit,” tion, no large graphic signs and Heart of Jesus, The Feast of All Saints, World she said. “He was outraged that no yelling,” Garnett told Our killing unborn babies was now Sunday Visitor. “We meet the Day of Prayer for Vocations, and much more! legal. It was shocking and dev- mother where she is and offer astating. How could it even be her the love of Christ and let her possible to kill an unborn baby? know we are there for her. Since I felt hollow and devastated. we have adopted those meth- Inventory No. T1240 Even as a 10-year-old, I remem- ods (in Dallas), we have helped Hardcover, $14.95 ber feeling that if you live in a more than 6,000 moms to turn civilized society, how can this away. Just in the past year, it’s be?” over 800.” That Supreme Court deci- Other changes added more Kindle and Nook versions available! sion prompted pro-life protests ministries for pregnant women, and, she added, many people abortion healing and outreach- 1-800-348-2440 Ext. 2175 couldn’t imagine that the law es to the Hispanic community. would stand. But it did. At the Thanks to many components of A31BBO63 20-year mark, when Bishop the pro-life advocacy, the num- OUR SUNDAY VISITOR RESPECT LIFE JANUARY 20, 2013 15 Please support ber of abortion centers in Dallas fell from 13 to five since 1990. our partners in “There have been 92 pieces of pro-life legislation passed Respecting Life. across the country in the last two years, and that includes a Benedictine Sisters of Population Research Institute sonogram law in Texas that’s the Annunciation Monastery 1190 Progress Drive, Suite 2D strongest in the country,” she 7520 University Drive P.O. Box 1559 said. “Because of that law, abor- Bismarck, ND 58504 Front Royal, VA 22630 tion procedure hours here have 701-255-1520 888-774-1531 dropped 20 percent. The abor- www.annunciationmonastery.org www.pop.org/realneed tion rate in the state dropped 4.3 percent between 2008 and Diocese of Prenatal Partners for Life 2010, and 7.1 percent in Dallas. Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. 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Klein has about life issues. “weren’t a good thing.” been seriously pro-life through- “One thing that I can say “So, after going through all out his ministry, and that in- to them is that you can preach this with the students, they cludes when he was a pastor about this from the pulpit, but understood that this did not with the Evangelical Lutheran you have to take the time to make sense,” he said. “We talk- Church. In fact, the Catholic write your homily,” he said. “It’s ed about life, liberty and the pro-life doctrine was a signifi- important to not shoot from the pursuit of happiness, and that cant reason behind his conver- hip. You have to phrase it right (abortion) takes away the life of sion to Catholicism and his or- so that we are the ones — not the innocent. We talked about dination as a priest in 2006. Planned Parenthood — who of- the horrors of the Nazis, and “In my Lutheran period, fer hope and forgiveness. It can’t that’s just as bad as what they’re which was most of my life un- be your only theme, doing (with abor- til 2003, I was not so much in- and it doesn’t need tion).” volved in the movement, but I to be every Sunday. Inventory # T1371 took a fairly conspicuous role in Sometimes it can Cultural changes the internal debates in Luther- just be a paragraph Father Perry is anism, for instance, the ques- or a few sentences.” administrator of St. iscover the stories of nine women who tions of permissibility and the There’s no danger George Byzantine successfully broke through — real feminist side of anti-life that in preaching to the Catholic Church in D was gaining great strength,” he choir, he added, be- Olympia, Wash., Catholic women who have asked the hard said. cause many people and is the pro-life questions, ex- in the pews are con- coordinator for the Unfriendly atmosphere fused or influenced Byzantine Catho- plored both their Order the hardcover Father Klein, 67, is direc- by the culture of lic Eparchy of Van faith and expert book today! tor of the Office of Pro-Life death. Father Klein Nuys, Calif. His 800-348-2440 x2175 Activities and Respect Life Advances in so- passion for the secular sources, $16.95 Committee for the Diocese of nograms and other medical movement began in the early and have come to Wilmington, Del. He also has technology have proved the 1970s, when it was still a states’ FREE Shipping! dual assignments at St. Mary’s pro-life affirmation of human rights issue. “There was very a new and deeper Code: OSV1912 Parish and St. Patrick’s Par- life in the womb. much energy,” he said, “and I understanding of ish, and is administrator of the “These sonogram images put wanted to become involved.” Cathedral of St. Peter. He and the pro-abortion movement on There have been some major the realities of being Catholic. Each of them his wife, Christa, have three the defensive, and fewer people challenges in the last 40 years, courageously faced questions their mothers children, including a disabled are prepared to argue that this particularly, he said, in the in- daughter who lives at home, is just a blob of tissue,” he said. fluence of a changing culture and grandmothers would never have en- and six grandchildren. “They can no longer deny what that’s accepting assisted suicide, countered, found intellectually and spiritu- “Delaware has one of the is actually in the womb. They same-sex marriage, legalized highest abortion rates in the may try, but the blob-of-tissue marijuana and the widespread ally satisfying answers within the framework country,” he said. “It doesn’t argument is harder to defend selective killing of unborn chil- of their Catholic faith. have a viable parental consent when more people can see the dren with Down syndrome. law, so we have reason to be- evidence that it isn’t.” “But we also are seeing and lieve that underage girls from doing things that are very en- Topics include: Pennsylvania and other states Power of education couraging,” he said. “We defi- • Navigating dating and sexpectations are coming here. There’s also An African-American pastor nitely have a pro-life younger an egregious effort by Planned from a Protestant church told generation, so I think we are • Feminism, freedom and contraception Parenthood to target minori- Father Lee Perry that the reason making headway there. I go to • Children versus a “better me” ties, and Delaware is easily ac- more Protestant ministers don’t the march in Washington, D.C., cessible to the (surrounding) preach on pro-life is that many and I see school groups coming • Being Catholic in light of the sexual black and Latino communities, in their congregations have had from all over the country, and abuse scandal which is a heavy part of Planned abortions. these kids seem very dedicated Parenthood’s business.” “It’s a form of genocide in to life. I would like to see more • Faith, psychology and same-sex African-American neighbor- Catholic schools because edu- attraction Pro-life preaching hoods,” Father Perry said, “but cation is the key, and I think The diocese’s pro-life min- he told me that the ministers that Catholic and non-Catholic istries work with 40 Days For don’t want to offend anyone churches should work together. Life and groups that push for and lose them as members.” Really, this is the civil rights pro-life legislation, such as op- But it’s through information movement for the unborn. We position to embryonic stem and education, he said, that have a lot of work to do.” cell research. He has praise for people learn the truth about the laypeople who “are doing a abortion. Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller good job,” but would like to see Case in point: When he writes from Pennsylvania. 18 JANUARY 20, 2013 FAITH OUR SUNDAY VISITOR OPENING THE WORD | CARL OLSON INTERVIEW Extraordinary revealed Cana miracle shows God cares about the ordinary RADICAL RESPONSE events and mundane concerns of his people “You are my beloved Son; with to the horror of abortion you I am well pleased.” At Cana, eternity was press- Author-pro-life advocate recounts her years of controversial rescue work ing hard against — or within — history. Yet the setting, again, was ordinary enough: a modest By Mark Sullivan wedding celebration in a small Pulling the bodies of abort- t. John’s account of the wed- town north of Nazareth. The ed babies out of trash bins be- ding in Cana is unique to bride and groom are unnamed, hind abortion clinics, taking hisS Gospel; it is also the first of but later traditions suggest pictures of those aborted ba- the seven signs presented in the Mary was the aunt of the bride- bies, blocking the entrances to first half of the Gospel, what is groom. It seems that she was in- abortion clinics, getting arrest- sometimes called “The Book of volved in helping with the cel- ed for doing so and spending Signs” (Jn 2-12). These miracles ebration. Jesus and his disciples time in jail for those “crimes” include the healing of the offi- also knew them, for they were have made Monica Migliorino cial’s son (Jn 4), the healing of invited to the wedding. It was a Miller a controversial figure in the paralytic (Jn 5), the mul- large and joyful family gather- the pro-life movement. “Aban- tiplication of the loaves (Jn 6), ing. doned: The Untold Story of the walking on water But the veil of Abortion Wars” (St. Benedict (Jn 6), the restora- JAN. 20, 2013 the ordinary was Press, $26.95) is her account tion of the blind SECOND unsettled by a of her involvement in the pro- man (Jn 9) and the simple, quiet state- life movement in Chicago and SUNDAY IN raising of Lazarus ment: “They have Milwaukee from 1976 to 1993. (Jn 11). ORDINARY TIME no wine.” This Miller recently spoke with The riches of IS 62:1-5 might seem odd, Our Sunday Visitor about her this Gospel read- PS 96:1-2,2-3,7-8, notes Father Hans book and her thoughts on the ing are inexhaust- 9-10 Ur von Balthasar, future of the pro-life cause. ible. But there 1 COR 12:4-11 as Mary “had is one word that JN 2:1-11 probably not seen Our Sunday Visitor: You comes to mind: any outward mira- describe some activities in relationship. There cle by him yet. Yet your book that many would are many relationships implied she knows all that is necessary: consider extreme — taking the and depicted here, and they are she knows of the holy power bodies of aborted babies from like the many layers of a de- within him.” The relationship the trash bins behind abor- tailed painting, revealing more between the Mother and the tion clinics so that they could each time it is viewed and con- Son is front and center, even receive proper burials, taking templated. though Mary points always to photographs of the aborted ba- Think back on the previous him: “Do whatever he tells you.” bies and blocking entrances to four Sundays: Christmas, the There has been much writ- abortion clinics. Aren’t those Holy Family, Epiphany and ten about the words of Jesus activities pretty radical? the Baptism of Christ. Each of in between his mother’s state- St. Benedict Press these feasts marks a profound ment. Was he being rude? Re- Monica Migliorino Miller: event or reality within salvation buking? Dismissive? What was Once you have an awareness of there’s no barbed wire around people and deprives them of history; each is directly focused his point? His reply, wrote St. the horrific injustice of abor- them or tall fences or guard their God-given right. It is also on the mystery of Jesus Christ. Maximus of Turin, was meant tion, it takes hold of you. You towers. There’s a clinic in the human alienation. The real Who is he? Why has he come? to foretell “the most glorious feel seized by it. You are called Michigan right next to a cof- suffering is the loneliness. How will he accomplish the sal- hour of his passion and the to make a radical response. fee shop. You have people sip- A culture based on a radi- vation of his people? wine of our redemption, which You can’t live a normal life any ping lattes while an abortion- cal disconnectedness from one What emerges, among other would obtain life for all. Mary more. ist is killing babies, up to six human being to another is not things, is that the Incarnate was asking for a temporal fa- months gestational age, on the a culture that is going to stand. Word is fully divine — con- vor, but Christ was preparing OSV: Why a radical re- other side of the wall. That is the ultimate philosophy ceived by the power of the Holy that would be eternal.” Yet, as sponse? Some of the people going of Roe v. Wade. That’s what my Spirit — and fully human — Maximus noted, Jesus “did not into the coffee shop know this book is trying to reveal. raised as an “ordinary” boy in a refuse this small grace while Miller: The big problem is because people picket out- nondescript Jewish family. Un- greater graces awaited.” It is the that a lot of people have learned side. Still they’re not bothered. OSV: Your pro-life activ- til the age of about 30, Jesus ap- divine, not the devil, who is in to live with abortion. We are They’re probably thinking it’s ism has a distinctive dramatic peared to be like so many other the details, for God cares about dealing with more than 50 just a woman’s choice. It’s her quality to it. Was this inten- young Jewish men. But the the ordinary events and mun- million victims, but where are right or her business. tional? nature of his conception and dane concerns of his people. they? They’re invisible. They’re birth, along with the visit by Through the ordinary, the ex- very small. They don’t intrude OSV: Knowing that abor- Miller: My theater back- the Magi, pointed to something traordinary is revealed, just as on your life in anyway, and tions are going on a few feet ground was enormously help- radical, uncharted, unsettling. three years later the dark horror everything looks very normal away, can people really be un- ful in my pro-life work. It His baptism at the hands of his of the Cross revealed the splen- and our life is not disturbed by bothered? helped me to develop my orga- cousin, John, appeared routine dor of God’s saving love. it — unless we want it to be. nizational skills and prepared at the start, but culminated Abortion clinics look like Miller: Abortion discon- me to deal with the media. I with the revelation of the Trini- Carl E. Olson is the editor of any other doctor’s office. Some nects us from each other. It’s was able to give extemporane- ty and the heavenly declaration, Catholic World Report. look raggedy and sordid, but not just that abortion kills ous interviews with reporters OUR SUNDAY VISITOR FAITH JANUARY 20, 2013 19 who showed up at our events. PASTORAL ANSWERS | MSGR. CHARLES POPE It dawned on me that when BRIEF BIO I was planning these rescues Monica Migliorino Miller is the founder and director of at clinics that I was direct- Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. In addition to her pro-life Communal sacrament ing a play and that the front advocacy, she is an associate professor of sacred theology of the clinic was the stage and at Madonna University in Livonia, Mich. Private prayer is not main point or purpose to be all of the characters had their roles to play. It wasn’t that I pursued at the time of receiving holy Communion wrote their lines for them, but in a way I did. When the pro- when 50 million human beings will be left up to the so-called with Jesus. Rather, they expe- abortion workers show up, you have been wiped off the face of neutral scholars or our en- rienced him corporately and know exactly what they are go- the earth in the last 40 years. emies, and they already have that after partaking of the sac- ing to say and how they’re go- It’s lost. What has to happen is their books out about us, and rament, they sang a hymn (see ing to react. When the police- that we have to regain that ter- it’s far from flattering or truth- Mt 26:30). If we extend the first man and the fireman show up, ritory that has been lost. ful. Mass to the foot of the Cross, you know exactly what they I don’t expect to get acco- We have a right to our own there too, those that made it that are going to say and how they lades from secular society. I perspective on what legalized uestion: I think that the far, stayed together and sup- are going to react. They are expect the exact opposite — abortion means in the United Qreception of holy Commu- ported the Lord and each other. making their entrances and mockery, vilification, and -de States of America. We have nion is probably the most pre- exits on a stage that I devised rogatory comments. something to say regarding cious time a person can have to Homosexuality’s origins for them in a real-life theater. It our own experience and the 40 commune with the Lord. Why uestion: I think homo- is a true life and death drama. OSV: Do you really mean years of this struggle. Can you are we forced to sing hymns the Qsexual people are born ho- Everyone was reacting to what lost? imagine the Civil War only be- whole time Communion is be- mosexual. What is the Catholic I had set up for them. ing written by the slave own- ing distributed, making it im- Church’s theological or scien- Miller: When I say lost, I ers? possible for us to converse with tific position? OSV: What did don’t mean that the Lord? — Charles O’Neill your family say it’s over and done OSV: You mentioned that — David Tomko via email about your pro-life with and that we your work was controversial. Butler, Pa. work? shouldn’t fight Inside the pro-life movement nswer: The Catechism of to get it back or there are some who argue nswer: The General In- Athe Catholic Church states Miller: I didn’t that there aren’t against deliberately breaking Astruction of the Roman regarding homosexual orienta- tell my parents or pockets of hope or the law, such as blocking the Missal states, “While the priest tion: “Its psychological genesis my brothers and signs of life that we entrance to an abortion clinic is receiving the sacrament, the remains largely unexplained” sisters what I was could reverse this, in a rescue. You spent time in Communion chant is begun, (No. 2357). Hence the Church up to. I don’t know but it’s like revers- jail for your rescue activities, its purpose being to express the has no official doctrine that why, but I haven’t. ing the Titanic on but you don’t do rescues any spiritual union of the commu- would either affirm or deny Now they can read its way to hitting more. Why is that? nicants by means of the unity your assertion. the book and find the iceberg. It’s a of their voices, to show glad- The moral requirements for out what Monica’s Miller gargantuan task Miller: Our goal was not ness of heart, and to bring out a person of same-sex attraction been up to for the ahead. You could to simply “break the law.” Our more clearly the ‘communitar- do not vary based on the origin last 20 years or so! say that we were losing the cul- goal was to offer an act of de- ian’ character of the procession of the orientation. Rather, “bas- There was a certain level of ture in the years prior to Roe v. fense for the unborn slated for to receive the Eucharist. The ing itself on Sacred Scripture, isolation regarding my activ- Wade, but once that decision abortion. If laws were broken singing is prolonged for as long which presents homosexual ism from my immediate fam- went into the can and opened — well, this was a side effect of as the sacrament is being ad- acts as acts of grave depravity, ily, and I don’t know what to up the floodgates of death and the act of charity we were of- ministered to the faithful” (No. tradition has always declared make of that dynamic. It’s destruction of the innocent, fering to the unborn. 86). It also states, “When the that ‘homosexual acts are in- kind of too bad. But I didn’t the culture was lost that day. I have three reasons why distribution of Communion is trinsically disordered.’ They live close to my parents or my We have been fighting that I stopped doing rescues: (my over, if appropriate, the priest are contrary to the natural law. brothers and sisters, so geog- decision for 40 years. I don’t children) Bernadette, Joseph and faithful pray quietly for They close the sexual act to the raphy played a role. My par- see the quick fix. You have to and Patrick. Before I got mar- some time. If desired, a psalm gift of life. They do not proceed ents didn’t know quite what do whatever God wants. He ried and had children, I had no or other canticle of praise or a from a genuine affective and to make of my work, and they could end this whole thing to- excuses. It got more complicat- hymn may also be sung by the sexual complementarity. Under were a little afraid because my morrow if he wanted, but ap- ed after I got married and the whole congregation” (No. 88). no circumstances can they be work is controversial and in parently he’s letting us suffer children started to come. Note then the emphasis on approved” (ibid). some ways confrontational. through this and be his voice I see my pro-life work as the “communitarian” nature of It is not unlike a diabetic, They probably thought, “That’s crying in the wilderness. a vocation. Not everyone is this moment. And while private who may be so for genetic rea- just what Monica does and We need to be very realistic called to participate in res- prayer is not wholly excluded, sons or may be by acquiring the we’re not going to go there.” about the evil that is with us cues. People need to decide for neither is it extolled as the main condition. The bottom line is right now, and it’s very grave. themselves what God is asking point or purpose to be pursued the same — they must regulate OSV: If you were fighting I don’t think as a Church or as of them. at the time of receiving holy their diet. Thus, whatever the in some other cause such as a nation we have come to grips Marriage is also a vocation. Communion. origin of homosexuality, the re- civil rights or the protection of with it. I’m hoping my book For me, my marriage vocation The liturgy is fundamentally quirement is clear — one must the environment, you would will help. had to take priority over that a public and corporate act of embrace the life of celibacy that be a folk hero. There would be aspect of my pro-life vocation. worship of the whole Body of God enables (see No. 2359). songs and movies about you. OSV: What makes your The two vocations are joined Christ together. It is not essen- book different from the other in my efforts to imitate Christ. tially a private devotion. The Msgr. Charles Pope is the pastor Miller: I don’t even think books on abortion that are out I won’t be successful in either norms do permit a time after of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian in about it. I haven’t thought there? vocation if I’m not trying to Communion for silent prayer. Washington, D.C., and writes for about it until now. I know that imitate Christ on the cross. Your concerns are under- the Archdiocese of Washington, I’m in a very unpopular cause. Miller: My book is the first You have to lay down your life standable, but they need to be D.C., blog at blog.adw.org. Send The Church is fighting for narrative history of the pro-life for the other. That is why vio- balanced with what the Church questions to Pastoral Answers, her life. I think we’ve lost the movement written by a pro- lence in any pro-life work is al- teaches us the liturgy most fun- Our Sunday Visitor, 200 Noll battle when it comes to abor- lifer. ways wrong. damentally is. Consider that in Plaza, Huntington, IN 46750 or tion, contraception and the I think those who were in the first Mass, at the Last Sup- to [email protected]. 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Readers are reminded that although advertisements are checked in advance as much as possible for authenticity, publication does not imply Our Sunday Visitor endorsement. OUR SUNDAY VISITOR PERSPECTIVES JANUARY 20, 2013 21 EYE ON CULTURE | TERESA TOMEO OUR TAKE Brief salient observations and opinions on the news Faith-filled pep talk for football fans Papal words to ponder uch of evangeliza- In this new year, make an effort to meditate on tion is about reaching the writings of our pontiff from the past 12 months Mpeople where they are. For college football fans, that OK, here we are technically means parked in front of a only a few weeks past all the big-screen television the first Christmas celebrations. How week of January to watch the many of us have long stopped many bowl games. pondering the manger scene So, Catholics Come Home, a nonprofit organization that or, for that matter, can even evangelizes through advertis- remember where we stored the ing campaigns, decided to ne of my favorite ways to manger for next year? Going reach out to those fans with a Olearn about my faith and back to that article forced me national commercial during to grow in my relationship with to think about how I need to Coach Lou Holtz. Screen shot from Vimeo, video CatholicsComeHome.org college football bowl week God is to read the writings of spend more time, and not just that culminated Jan. 7 with Irish to their last title in 1988, mercial reached 70 million Pope Benedict XVI. For some during Advent and Christmas, the BCS National Champion- giving a pep talk, urging households during the week. reason, the pope’s words always reflecting on the Incarnation. ship Game between Alabama Catholics to “keep focused Time will tell if the cam- hit me right between the eyes “Christmas can be the time and Notre Dame. on the goal, and the goal is paign can get faithful off and strike me smack dab in the in which we learn to read the The ad features football heaven.” Catholics Come the sidelines and into fully heart. Whether it is something Gospel, to get to know Jesus not coach Lou Holtz, who led the Home estimates the com- practicing their faith. he said during his weekly gen- only as the Child in the manger, eral audience, his message after but as the one in whom we rec- the Sunday Angelus prayer or a ognize God made Man. It is in statement in reaction to break- the Gospel that Christians find ing news in the world, I always inspiration for their daily lives find him to be a profoundly and their involvement in world- clear and prolific teacher. ly affairs — be it in the Houses Champion the FAITH. That’s why at the top of my of Parliament or the Stock Ex- list of resolutions for 2013 is to change. Christians shouldn’t look back at some of the pope’s shun the world; they should en- Read OSV NEWSWEEKLY. words of wisdom in 2012. I try gage with it. But their involve- to read as much of Pope Bene- ment in politics and economics dict as I can. However, often I should transcend every form of find that reading takes place in ideology.” the middle of an already jam- See what I mean? Here packed day. So, I do almost a comes that “wow” factor again. speed reading of the document, Just chewing on this paragraph letter or article without really for a while can help us put the taking the necessary time to election into a clearer perspec- deeply reflect and pray about tive in terms of those in office what I have just absorbed. Ini- who claim to be Catholic but tially, because of the pope’s way can’t seem to rise above today’s with words, my reaction is usu- political correctness. The pope ally “wow” or “how true.” But forced me to take stock of how I then I put it aside and get back may in some ways also be buy- to the task at hand, which is ing into instead of standing why taking a second look is at up against the ideologies and the top of my hit parade. actions that are in direct con- Recently I went back to the flict with the teachings of the article he wrote for the Fi- Church. “ There is something wholesome about OSV Newsweekly. nancial Times (http://osv.cm/ So, before you move forward It does not apologize for what we believe. It simply presents ZX0b1J). The article originated full force into 2013, go back from a request made by the to some of the writings of our it clearly in a refreshing manner. ” newspaper asking for the pope’s pope and other great Catholic — Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington D.C. comments regarding Christmas teachers. 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At the end of a Stay connected with year that has mean economic Teresa Tomeo is the host of Our Sunday Visitor hardship for many, what can “Catholic Connection,” produced we learn from the humility, the by Ave Maria Radio and heard osvdailytake.com www.osv.com poverty, the simplicity of the daily on EWTN Global Catholic crib scene?” Radio and Sirius Channel 130. 22 JANUARY 20, 2013 PERSPECTIVES OUR SUNDAY VISITOR SPECTATOR | GREG ERLANDSON LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bring back that ‘old-time religion’ Confession’s back Russell Shaw asks “What if Second Vatican Council never occurred?” (News Analysis, Dec. 30). The simple answer to this 90-year-old is that our “old-time religion” of sacrifice, Bless me Father, you’ve got a good idea about penance and traditional practices of praise and adoration would still be around. how to get Catholics to return to the confessional With so much time and ink being used to discuss the liturgical changes, it seems to me, homilies have ignored the sinfulness of today’s society and its threat to our Catholic calling it “a repentance from within that can then transform youngsters and the future of Catholicism. the world without.” I would guess this oversight is the result of so many of our priests and bishops being My parish tried something under the age of 60, and therefore they have no idea what a joy “our old-time religion” unusual this Advent. It decided provided for the oldsters of the Greatest Generation. to make the sacrament available I don’t think Christ would approve of the accommodating Catholicism of today’s when parishioners were avail- generation. t’s the forgotten sacrament. able. A few months ago, Father — Bill Bandle Three-quarters of U.S. Cath- James Shafer, our pastor, pro- Iolics either never go or go less posed to his two associates that Manchester, Mo. than once a year. Many aren’t instead of hearing confessions even sure what to call it: Rec- for an hour Saturday, they try a onciliation? Penance? Confes- “back to the future” idea. Should you say ‘always’? number of Germans and I really find it hard to sion? “I told them that I always Japanese. comprehend how a problem Re: “God is with us” (Edi- Once upon a time, people wondered what would happen — Alvin Kirtz so obvious is so completely torial, Dec. 30). availed themselves of the Sacra- if we heard confessions around San Clemente, Calif. ignored. At the risk of being mis- ment of Reconciliation as much the weekend Mass schedule,” he Please, it can certainly be understood and coming out as they did the Eucharist. It was said. “Would making it more said in a kind and under- looking like the Grinch, I Learning about ACLU standing way and serve as offered frequently, and whole available and convenient for must question a quote in “Biased viewpoint” something for which people families waited in line to enter people help more of them ex- your editorial in which you (Catholic Journal, Dec. 30) is will even be very grateful. the confessional and tell the perience his great forgiving love said: “God is always on the an excellent article by Robert priest their litany of sins. I re- in their lives?” Don’t be afraid. side of the suffering.” It Lockwood. — Name and city withheld member people standing in line The priests agreed. They first would be safer to say “God What has been puzzling as Mass began, waiting to enter talked about confession from is always with us” — he is to me for many years is why the confessional and say, “Bless the pulpit. They published an omnipresent after all — but conservative media has Fear of the Lord me, Father, for I have sinned.” examination of conscience to say God always sides with not revealed more about Re: “Praying to the same Now only a fraction of Cath- in the bulletin. Then, for two the suffering may be stretch- the American Civil Liber- God?” (Pastoral Answers, olics go to confession even once weekend Mass cycles, as one ing it a bit. ties Union. Where are they Dec. 23). a year, although the Church en- priest celebrated Mass, the oth- Adolf Hitler suffered de- located? Who are the offi- God is a three-letter word courages us to go monthly. And er two were available not just feat and an ignominious end cers? Members of the board? that has about 7 billion it is not just a problem for laity. before and after Mass, but dur- in a Berlin bunker at the end And most important, who meanings for 7 billion people Use of the sacrament by priests ing it as well. For two weekends, of World War II, and while supports them? We all know on earth. While it may be has been in decline for years. the three priests logged more God was with Hitler, as he their agenda, but who are beneficial to ponder who will There are many reasons than 60 hours in the confes- is everywhere, I doubt that they? be saved, only God knows. why the sacrament all but dis- sional, and according to Father God sided with Hitler. I have — Donald Barton The rest of us pray and hope appeared. In part it may have Jim, more than 98 percent of heard progressives make the Jacksonville, Fla. and try to do the best we can been a reaction against that the time, they were busy. case that radical gay activists according to God’s gifts and kind scrupulosity that turned “On Sunday we began a half suffer for their cause, there- Receiving worthily our free-will choices. fore they should be equated But one thing is certain: confession into a data dump of hour before the 7:30 a.m. Mass Re: “Limited Commu- with the martyrs and saints “Rather, in every nation venial sins, tallying all the mis- and never left the confessionals nion” (Pastoral Answers, — but again, that is stretch- whoever fears him and acts Dec. 30). steps that often substitute for a until 1:30 in the afternoon! We ing the truth, isn’t it? uprightly is acceptable to I was pleased to hear that real reflection on the blindness were overwhelmed by the out- It might be wise for you to him” (Acts 10:35). the priest at the letter writ- and failures that truly turn us pouring of people. Many, many not overstate your position. As sinners (except for er’s parish actually addresses away from God. of them thanked us for making Yes, God is with us but he is Jesus and Mary) we are all the issue at funerals; in my Another reason is that the it available during Mass times,” not always on the side of the subject to fearing God and experience, it is almost never whole notion of sinfulness has he recalled, and many hadn’t suffering if folks suffer while his righteous acts of judg- done. It is very disturbing to waned. If God is a cross be- been to confession in decades. opposing his will. ment, and loving the One see not only non-Catholics tween an indulgent grandpar- “We were exhausted, but it — Frank Johnson who made us and sustains but people who were bap- ent and a best friend, then no was the draining one knows af- Winter Park, Fla. us according to his powerful tized Catholics and have sin seems to merit a passionate ter a job well done,” he said. Word (see Heb 1:3 and 11:3). either rarely been back or appeal for forgiveness. We are Well done, and yet just a be- Therefore, salvation is a In defense of Israel haven’t been to church in a also so prone to psychological descendent of the fear of the ginning. In many parishes, the “Seeking the star of peace” long time blithely receiving Lord, faith and doing what’s rationalizations of our behavior priest shortage makes this kind (Editorial, Dec. 16) seemed Communion without a word right. Those who do this have that we judge ourselves incapa- of blanket coverage extremely to decry the disproportion- from the presiding priest. no reason to fear God or the ble of sin. If everything is in our difficult. ate number of Palestinians Please let me beg priests to false gods that abound. Jesus genes or our upbringing, then In the crazy busy world we killed when Israel retali- develop the habit of giv- is Lord. nothing is our fault. live in, however, this is one ex- ated against the continuous ing at least a brief teaching Over the past several years, ample of how the Church can — Daniel Najvar rockets and suicide bomb- on who should and should Quitman, Texas however, there appears to be a respond with new tactics rather ings that Israel has endured not receive Communion, growing desire to restore the than abandoning old practices. in its attempt to defend the particularly at funerals and sacrament to a more central It turns out the need for healing tiny strip of land that the weddings and on days such Correction place in the life of the Church. and reconciliation hasn’t gone United Nations defined as an as Christmas and Easter. Cardinal Keith O’Brien New York Cardinal Timothy away. We just need to make it a independent nation. Should priests not be guard- should have been ideniti- Dolan has appealed eloquently priority again. By the same logic we ians of this sacrament? Is it fied as the archbishop of St. for a renewed appreciation of would have stopped short of not obvious to them how it Andrews and Edinburgh, the sacrament within the con- Greg Erlandson is OSV president winning World War II when is being abused (especially at Scotland, in “Catholics of text of the New Evangelization, and publisher. we had killed an equivalent these times)? 2012” (In Focus, Dec. 30). OUR SUNDAY VISITOR PERSPECTIVES JANUARY 20, 2013 23 SOMETHING TO SAY? EDITORIAL Wish to comment or respond to an editorial, article or letter you’ve read in OSV? E-mail us at osvletters@osv. com (put “Letters to the Editor” in subject line) or write to An inauguration letter Letters to the Editor, Our Sunday Visitor, 200 Noll Plaza, Huntington, IN 46750. Letters must be concise and are subject to editing (maximum 300 words). 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In your first inaugural ad- 14 Migrant farm worker dress, you said: “On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and 15 Forearm bones discord.” Later that year, you spoke at the University of Notre 16 Charlie Chan’s remark of Dame, addressing some of the issues that divide us, most surprise specifically abortion. 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This mandate, which has to date not been tempered or 42 Slender part of the leg 16:25–27) 29 OT prophetic book moderated by your administration, despite your assurances, 43 Made a priest 63 Fun follower? 30 The ___ of Confession would force organizations — including our own — to violate 45 Hand-held computer, 64 The “Velvet Fog” 31 Mobutu ___ Seko the teachings of our Church or risk outrageously punitive 65 Catholic Australian novelist 32 Peak in ancient Palestine monetary fines many times the cost of simply not providing briefly health care benefits to our employees at all. 46 Former “evil empire” and author of “The Shoes of 33 Purim month Worse still, your administration is imposing a fourfold test 47 Falls found in the Diocese of the Fisherman” 34 Prayer counter to determine if a nonprofit organization is sufficiently reli- Saint Catharines 35 Holy ___ gious to warrant protection from this mandate, demanding 51 Pooch from Wales DOWN 38 Writes that it primarily hire and serve members of its own faith. 54 Lenten foliage 1 Sacre ___ 39 Hang-up This onerous requirement would impact Catholic colleges, 2 Czar’s edict 41 Enthusiastic okay, in Seville charities, hospitals and companies like Our Sunday Visitor. 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