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September 26, 2013. (Romereports.com) Back in 1983, Pope John Paul II authorized the Vatican to prepare a document that addressed the role of the family in modern society. After months of work, they came up with the Charter of the Rights of the Family.   Three decades later, the Pontifical Council for the Family is getting ready to mark the Charter's 30th anniversary, with a special presentation on how the document impacts women today. DR. HELEN ALVARÉ Professor of Family, Religion and Law (USA) “The Church has a credible witness in our charity, a credible witness in our words and a real balance between what women are actually demanding, between what they actually want, and between what women, children and the poor actually need.” The charter addresses individual rights like the freedom for a man and women to have a family through marriage, and to have children. But it also calls on societies to respect certain rights, like the protection of life from conception to natur...

Oklahoma City, OK - Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, called upon pro-life activists today to make this Lenten season a time of increased pro-life prayer and activism nationwide. "If we are going to repent of sin, we have to start with the sin of abortion," Fr. Pavone will declare today at a major speech in Oklahoma. "Repentance begins in our Churches and then continues as we come outside of the Church and into the streets in massive, peaceful protest against abortion." Fr. Pavone and the entire Priests for Life organization are major supporters of the " 40 Days for Life " campaign and will visit cities across the nation where this effort is being carried out. "I look forward to working with activists where 40 Days for Life is being implemented, as well as with other communities where similar efforts are underway." The women and men of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign will mobilize across the nation as they proclaim,...

An update from Operation Rescue about how the Kansas abortion cartel has been under unprecedented pressure from pro-life efforts with national implications Wichita, KS – As Christians prayed for an end to abortion over the past 40 days as a part of the “40 Days For Life” national prayer vigil campaign, God heard and answered prayers in Kansas in amazing ways. Tiller’s Troubles Intensify In Wichita, late-term abortionist George R. Tiller and his “hired-gun” out-of-state abortionists LeRoy Carhart, Shelley Sella, and Susan Robinson face the uncertainty of whether Tiller’s abortion empire can withstand the scandal of three major legal offenses along with decreasing abortion numbers. MORE

Amazing developments as 40 Days For Life prayer campaign to stop abortion continues Wichita, KS -- October 9, 2007 -- George Tiller and other abortionists around Kansas are having a bad day. Never since abortion was decriminalized over three decades ago has the abortion industry been in such a bind. We believe this is an answer to fervent, purposeful, and focused prayer. "The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." -James 5:16 We are in our 14th day of prayer in our 40 Days For Life campaign and we are amazed to see what God is doing. We are seeing what Operation Rescue President Troy Newman calls a "full court press" against the abortion industry in Kansas. Here is what is going on in Wichita and around the state: Abortionist George Tiller: Charged with 19 criminal counts of illegal abortion. This case is pending. He faces up to 19 years in jail and nearly $50,000 in fines. Faces a grand jury investigation that could uncover literally hundr...

You can find the daily devotional prayers for day nine here.

You can find the prayers here and here . I been very busy lately, so I'm putting these prayers up a little later than I had hoped, but here they are.

Daily Devotional by: Fr. Frank Pavone Love those who cannot repay you SCRIPTURE: "Jesus said to the chief of the Pharisees who had invited him to dinner: 'Whenever you give a lunch or dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or wealthy neighbors. They might invite you in return and thus repay you. No, when you have a reception, invite beggars and the crippled, the lame and the blind. You should be pleased that they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid in the resurrection of the just.'" -- Luke 14:12-14. REFLECTION: "Eschatology" is the study of the "last things" --death, judgment, heaven and hell. Our faith speaks of these matters in order to train us to think of them as real. The more we do that, the more strength we find to shape our lives today in such a way that death and judgment will bring us to the joys of heaven. I call it "eschatological realism," that is, the habit of taking into account today the "la...

Now you can find the Devotionals at the 40 Days for Life blog. Go here to pray the devotions for days 4 and 5.

SCRIPTURE: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long suffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life."-- 1 Timothy 1:15b-16 REFLECTION: As a post-abortive woman, I (Carmen Pate) made this my life verse following my brokenness before the Lord and the receiving of His forgiveness. This verse is a reminder to me that I must never waste God's mercy towards me, but instead allow Him to use meas an example of His love, His patience, and His amazing grace. The Apostle Paul was the first to identify himself as the "chief of sinners." Certainly, it is easy for us to point to his record of sins and understand why he would claim this label as his own. We may wonder silently if it might more appropriately be the label for the abortionist inside the clinic, or the Planned Parenthood counselors, or the NARAL activists....

SCRIPTURE: "Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them." -- Psalm 34: 3-4, 7 REFLECTION: Fear of what man may do to us, or fear of what the future may hold, keeps many in bondage to the lies of the enemy. A young woman may fear her boyfriend won't love her if she doesn't engage in promiscuity. The young woman who has an unplanned pregnancy may fear what the future holds because she has believed the lie that her life and her future are over because of the child in her womb. The post-abortive woman may fear she is unworthy of love and deserves to be punished by both God and man. We may fear what people think or what man may do to us because we stand for righteousness, and stand in the gap for the unborn and the woman with child. But Scripture tells us to fear the Lord! In fact, the theme of the book...

In Wichita, Operation Rescue and the Kansas Coalition For Life will begin participation in 40 Days For Life outside the nation’s largest late - term abortion clinic. For the next 40 days, from September 26 through November 4, pro-life supporters will be urged to maintain a constant prayer presence during every business hour at Women’s Health Care Services, the late-term abortion mill owned and operated by George R. Tiller, who is currently facing 19 criminal counts of illegal abortions, a county grand jury investigation that could net additional charges, and a disciplinary review by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. “We believe strongly in the power of prayer,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “In Aurora, Illinois, on the last day of their 40 Days For Life Vigil, a judge ruled that the Planned Parenthood office in that community must remain closed. It was an amazing answer to prayer.” “We will pray for the next 40 days that Tiller’s clinic will also close and that he...

Bishop Encourages All Priests to Imitate Him by Spending One Hour in Front of Abortion Facility Samuel J. Aquila, the Catholic bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, is strongly encouraging his priests to imitate him by praying for an hour in front of an abortion facility during this year's national "Forty Days of Life". The "Forty Days for Life", which is scheduled to take place from September 26th to November 4th of this year, is a program of pro-life activism modeled on the biblically significant number of forty days, found in both the old and new testaments. According to organizers, churches and organizations in 89 US cities and 33 states have agreed to participate by conducting vigils in front of abortion clinics, praying, and "fasting" in various ways (by giving up something valued). For more information, see http://www.40daysforlife.com/about.cfm . MORE