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Published: March 13, 2009
“Celebration of life”
March for Life Los Angeles planned tomorrow in Encino
The 6th annual March for Life Los Angeles is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, March 14, along Ventura Boulevard in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Registration will begin at 8 a.m., with opening ceremonies slated to start at 9 a.m.
 “Join the Pro Life community of Los Angeles… as we walk down Ventura Boulevard, starting from St. Cyril of Jerusalem Catholic Church, 15520 Ventura Blvd., Los Angeles,” says a flyer announcing the event. The two-mile march will begin and end at St. Cyril’s, sponsors said.
The March for Life Los Angeles began in 2003 “to raise awareness of the sanctity of life and funds for the Pregnancy Counseling Center in Mission Hills,” says the March for Life Los Angeles web site. Registration for the event is $5.
“We invite you to join us on March 14 to take a stand for the right to life for the unborn,” says the web site. “The LA March is an ecumenical event that is brought to you by the Knights of Columbus, Van Nuys Council 3148. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness of the plight of the unborn and to raise funds that support pro-life causes in the San Fernando Valley.”
According to the Los Angeles March for Life web site, the event is held for several reasons: “First, we want inform women struggling with this decision that there are real ‘choices’ that exist other than killing a precious, innocent child and that there are local organizations who will help them with these choices. “Second, we want people to become more aware of the sanctity of life. We see life from the Christian perspective that God creates it and that it is a gift from God. Third, we want the people in one of the most prodigious abortion states to know that there are those of us who do not agree with the killing of over 50 million innocent lives since 1973.”
The event’s sponsors stress, however, that the march is not a protest but “a celebration of life… We are a peaceful group, marching in solidarity and speaking for the voiceless children who have already suffered and standing in support of those who might be saved in the future.”
Members of the Knights of Columbus, Van Nuys Council 3148, began planning the first March for Life Los Angeles in May of 2003, and the first march was held in March of 2004. Since then, there has been a march every year.
Sponsors describe the Los Angeles March for Life as “a festive family event involving children, adolescents and adults. While the Knights of Columbus is a Catholic organization, this event is inclusive of all faiths. Anyone who believes that life is precious and supports saving the lives of the innocent children taken by abortion is welcome to participate.”
Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 8:29 AM By Richard
"Save the baby humans." -- from a bumpersticker.
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Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 9:47 PM By Kenneth M. Fisher
When the Knights expell the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite public figures amongst them, then and only then will the Knights in their entirety be considered truly pro-life!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founder & Chairman
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
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Posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:07 PM By Mark from PA
This is a very nice article. Get off your high horse, Kenneth, you don't need to start bashing pro-life people now too.
Give the Knights some credit. And yes, some pro-life people are gay. They stopped burning people at the stake centuries ago. Live and let live.
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Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:35 AM By Grisha
Kenneth - It saddens me to see you and so many of the Catholic conservatives focused so much on trying to address the problem of abortion by punitive methods against fellow Catholics. "Kick him out of the Knights.", "Deny her communion" "Excommunicate them." This whole thing is ultimately about winning hearts and minds and my Daddy always said you get more flies with honey than you do vinegar."
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Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:48 PM By JLS
Grisha, sadly the pollyanna efforts to win hearts have failed to win any ... the ones they win become fellow pollyannas instead of devout Catholics.
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Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 1:54 PM By betty
I agree with JLS. There are times when blunt truth must be spoken even if it hurts people's feelings and makes them feel "bad about themselves" and there must be times when we say, "If that's the way you're going to be, then get up and leave; you can't stay here". I wish more of the hierarchy would say that instead of wishy-washy remarks.
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Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:17 PM By Mark from PA
Betty, you need to read "Nothing short of stunning." In the Northeast a lot of people have been made to feel unwelcome in the Church and left. Before Cardinal Law was in Boston 70% of Catholics there attended Mass weekly. When he left it was around 20%. Many young people (& their families) were pretty much driven out of the Church. The Boston Archdiocese pretty much lost a whole generation of young people. What a tragedy.
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Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:10 PM By JLS
I was just viewing a video on another Catholic website, which shows the sexual abuse carried out on abortion clinic prayer warriors by the homosexual escorts. I'm wondering why the prayer warriors don't bring dogs with them.
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Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:37 PM By Anne T.
Grisha, even the Lord Jesus used a whip to cleanse the Temple when nothing else worked.
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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:41 PM By Kenneth M. Fisher
Grish and PA,
The Constitution of the Knights of Columbus clearly calls for the expulsion of anyone bringing scandal upon the Order. Evidently the "Leadership of the KofC does not consider promoting abortion and sodomy as bringing scandal, but they have expelled real Knights who brought attention to the scandal! I am forwarding this to just such a Knight in Mass.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founder & Chairman
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc,
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Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:28 PM By Verkola
In reply to JLS: Authentic prayer for the conversion of hearts is never a "pollyanna" practice. Nor should such prayer give way to what St. Thomas Aquinas calls fainting, which is despair over the efficacy of supplicatory (impretatory) prayer. Aquinas explains: "As for the efficacy in impretating, prayer derives from the grace of God to Whom we pray, and Who instigates us to prayer. Wherefore Saint Augustine (De Verb. Dom. Serm. cv 11): *He would not urge us to ask, unless he were willing to give*; and Chrysostom says: *He never refuses to grant our prayers, since in His loving-kindness He urges us not to faint in prayer*"(_Summa Theologica_, Part II-II, Q. 83, art. 15). We but cooperate: Prayer itself, however, derives from the grace of God to Whom we pray. It is God who instigates our prayer for the conversion of our own and others' hearts. *** So no, JLS, prayerful efforts "to win hearts" can never be said to have "failed to win any [hearts]" because, as St. Augustine teaches, "[God] would not urge us to ask, unless He were willing to give."
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Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:18 PM By JLS
Verkola, my post about pollyana attitudes was specifically addressing the context of what Grisha had posted. I was not making a general statement about prayer. Did you find any accompanying quotes regarding how to divide up one's time between prayer and action? Or how to allocate prayer when so many cases need prayer? There is a realism that goes along with prayer, which has to do with one's state in life. Any saints ever say that God answers with the word "no" sometimes?
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Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 5:38 PM By Diogcliestott
FANTASTIC!
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