Rally for Life and Memorial Walk
This Sunday
January 22, 2012
Pioneer Courthouse Square
2:30 p.m.
This Sunday
January 22, 2012
Pioneer Courthouse Square
2:30 p.m.
sign-up for Oregon Right to Life emails - ortl.org
The Oregon 2012 initiative to end public funding of abortion needs help collecting signatures at the Portland Rally for Life on Jan. 22. For information about volunteering call Jeff Jimerson @ 541.971.0407. Or, just stop by the Oregon 2012 table on Sunday and ask for petition sheets! You can also order petition sheets and learn more at http://oregon2012.org/ . (thanks Diane)
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Cheerleader Bishop Vasa (the whole article) Since 1984, this is the first time that a bishop has participated completely in a mass, rally and march.
Bishop to rally abortion opponents at Santa Rosa protest
Vasa to be keynote speaker at downtown Santa Rosa protest
Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa says he will serve as a "cheerleader" at an anti-abortion rally Sunday in Old Courthouse Square, urging attendees to continue to fight to defend the sanctity of life.
"In many ways we are engaged in a battle for the American soul," said Vasa, who became spiritual leader of the 165,000-member Santa Rosa Catholic diocese in July.
He will be the keynote speaker at a Rally for Life from 2 to 3:30 p.m., sponsored by Sonoma County Pro Life, a local chapter of the National Right to Life Committee.
The rally is held annually on the Sunday closest to Jan. 22, the date of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 granting women the right to an abortion.
Vasa, in his first public appearance as bishop, is challenging that principle in a liberal, strongly feminist region in which two members of Congress, one a Catholic, support abortion rights.
Vasa, who previously served as bishop of the Baker Diocese in politically conservative eastern Oregon, said his blunt words may cause some people, including Catholics, to bristle.
His answer would be: "Show me a circumstance where it is permitted by God to take a life," Vasa said in an interview Friday.
Abortion opponents should not be discouraged, he said, even if they cannot elect "pro-life candidates" or get the court ruling overturned. "It's about advocating for life," Vasa said. "As long as we are raising that voice (for the rights of "the pre-born child") we are a success."
Life in the womb that is "growing and metabolizing," even if it lacks consciousness, is "fully human," he said. "There are no gradations to it."
You are not alone…
"When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God -- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine.
But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world -- and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!'"
Congressman Henry Hyde
You are not alone…
"When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God -- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine.
But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world -- and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!'"
Congressman Henry Hyde
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