By Dave Andrusko It was about the same time that a speaker at today’s March for Life told the huge audience that Pope Francis had tweeted his support for unborn babies and the Marchers that somebody tweeted me that President Obama had rolled out his annual...
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Pope Francis talks to diplomats about abortion and “the throwaway culture”
By Dave Andrusko It was an important setting-- the yearly Papal address to diplomats accredited to the Vatican, a speech known as his "State of the World" address. In a section of the speech about the rights of children around the world, Pope Francis said this...
TIME magazine selects Pope Francis as “Person of the Year”
By Dave Andrusko When, like you, I looked at the list of ten finalists for TIME magazine’s “Person on the Year, it was easy to conclude that some were clunkers times ten (Miley Cyrus?!), some predictable as the day is long (President Obama), while others were...
Pope Francis receives delegation from Dignitatis Humanae Institute, affirms human dignity, warns against “throwaway culture”
By Dave Andrusko A thank you goes out to Vatican Radio and the Zenit news agency for alerting readers to the message Pope Francis delivered Saturday to a delegation from the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI) which is celebrating its fifth anniversary....
Pope Francis’ “The Joy of the Gospel” is a beautiful and thoughtful celebration of the Catholic Church’s love for unborn children and their mothers
By Dave Andrusko Pro-lifers will come away from Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) -- Pope Francis’ 84-page Apostolic Exhortation released today-- blessed by his breadth of his insight and depth of his compassion for mother and unborn child. It is not...
The Christian response to abortion: choosing hope over despair, compassion over cold-heartedness, caring over violence
By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Religion rarely becomes the lead story on cable news, but it did this past week, following the publication of an interview with Pope Francis published in “America” magazine. The pro-abortion...
Over 2.5 Million Attendees Expected for World Youth Day- – Rio 2013
“Go and make disciples of all nations!” (cf. Mt 28:19) By Ernest Ohlhoff, NRLC Director of Outreach Pope Francis fulfilling the schedule of the 28th World Youth Day (WYD) events prepared by his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI, is expected to draw and unprecedented turn...
Vatican to Host Special Commemoration for Evangelium Vitae
By Carol Tobias, President, National Right to Life In 1995, Pope John Paul II issued a clear and ringing endorsement of the pro-life position in an encyclical that reaffirmed “the value and inviolability of human life.” In Evangelium Vitae, or “The Gospel of Life,”...
New Pope offers his second blessing to pregnant woman
By Dave Andrusko It was only a short notice in Romereports.com this morning, but one that pro-lifers heartily cheer: “Francis offers his second blessing as Pope to pregnant woman.” The new Pope had prayed for nearly a half-hour at the altar of Rome's Basilica of St....
Pro-Life Activists at UN Heartened by Election of Pope Francis I
By Rai Rojas During the course of the last 19 years I have often reported about events happening at the United Nations FROM inside the United Nations, working with Jeanne Head who is National Right to Life’s Representative to the UN. Nothing I’ve ever seen, heard,...