Eucharistic Congress 2008: I am the Living Bread
Some great photos from The Georgia Bulletin can be found here. From the same publication: Speakers Challenge Catholics To Take Action An excerpt: As the next speaker, Dr. Helen Alvaré strode to the podium and said, “The girl is here.” An author and law professor at George Mason University, Alvaré touched on the topics of feminism, marriage and the Eucharist, as well as sharing experiences from her 10 years of work in the pro-life movement with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. After spending time with women who had had abortions, she found “their internal brokenness in relationships, in their parenthood” to be heart-rending. Abortion, said Alvaré, “is always the last sad decision … a relationship you are refusing with the child.” Alvaré stated that only in the United States are you “allowed to kill a member of your family at the most vulnerable time … and consider it not a crime but a right.” Alvaré is now studying and working in the area of marriage and the Eucharist, and the r...