March for Life 2012
Members of MDP parish ventured to Washington, D.C. on January 23 to join the March for Life on the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court “Roe v Wade” decision which legalized abortion in the U.S. MDP was welcomed by our Berwyn neighbors at St. Monica’s parish, to join their chartered bus, which made a stop at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for mass with our Archbishop Chaput to begin the day. Eight from MDP, half of them teenagers, braved the cold and rain to peacefully march with an estimated 500,000 other Americans to voice their opposition to the law. It is estimated An 54 million unborn children have been legally killed in the U.S. since the ruling took effect on January 1973.
“By virtue of the simple fact of existing, every human being must be fully respected… discrimination with regard to human dignity based on biological, psychological, or educational development, or based on health-related criteria, must be excluded…The boundless and almost incomprehensible love of God for every human being reveals the degree to which the human person deserves to be loved in him/herself, independently of any other consideration.” (Dignitas Personae, 2008, n.8)”
Included here is a website that might help in your study of the Church’s Life Issues:
http://www.cdeducation.org/oym/sj/respectlife.htm
