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Our bishop, David M. O'Connell, gave a strong and excellent homily on our duty to protect life.

In centuries past, the cross of terminal illness was seen as an opportunity to be compassionate to the sick and for "offering up" of suffering for the good of others by the sick. There is a process of "letting go" and entrustment to God by everyone that needs to happen, a process that must not be short-circuited by euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. Click here for more information on end-of -life care.

Click here to see several parish events that will be held during October, Respect Life month.

The Respect Life Group of Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Anthony parish has been telling you about all the things we'd like to accomplish, and how we need your help! Now's the time to volunteer! Click the article title for more information.

Please join our parish Respect Life Group to help us raise awareness of pro-life issues within both our parish and the wider community. Every baby in the womb is a human life, made in the image and likeness of God, given life by God. What God has given, man should not take away!

The Respect Life Group of Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Anthony is looking for people who want to join us in activities that promote life. But we know that not everyone is cut out for political activism. That’s why we are also looking for people who want to join us in prayer activities. Click the article title for more information.

The Respect Life Group of Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Anthony is looking for people who want to join us in activities that promote life. A majority of Americans want to limit abortions, but our legislators keep ignoring us. We need your help to get through to them that they are out of step with their constituents. Click the article title for more information.

The Respect Life Group of Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Anthony is looking for people who want to join us in activities that promote life. Of primary importance is raising the awareness of ordinary people about life issues. Did you know that approximately 20% of pregnancies end in abortion? Click the article title to find out more about how you can help us raise awareness about the deadliness of this scourge.

The Respect Life Group of Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Anthony is looking for people who want to join us in activities that promote life. We’d like to make it easier for women to choose to have their babies, but to do this, we need your help! Click the article title for more information!

Are you on the fence about assisted suicide? Do you think perhaps it is a considerate and sympathetic choice for those in pain? If so, you might want to rethink when you see the numbers. Click the article title for more information.

“A just law is a code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.” [Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 4/16/1963]

Fr. Shenin Boquet, president of Human Life International, has written an excellent article on the interrelationships of the various components of the Culture of Death--Contraception, abortion, euthanasia, divorce, pornography, same-sex “marriage”, and gender ideology (to name some of the big ones). Click the article title to see the beginning of the article, and find a link to the rest of the article.

The idea that assisting a suicide shows compassion and eliminates suffering is misguided. It eliminates the person, and results in suffering for those left behind—grieving families and friends, and other vulnerable people who may be influenced by this event to see death as an escape. Click the article title for more information on true compassion.