The following comes from a Jan. 7 Facebook posting.
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“Protest ABQ is encouraging the pro-life community to use the following hashtag on social media to help spread the word about this historic call to action: #NatlStrike4Life.”
Protest ABQ is joined by national Pro-Life organizations, including Operation Rescue, Created Equal and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust in declaring the first ever national pro-life call to action: a National Strike and Protests on January 22-23, 2015.
This one-of-a-kind call for two days of national strike and protests has the potential of sending a resounding message to the leaders of this nation that the American people want abortion to end.
We are encouraging all like-minded people throughout the country not to go to work or school nor spend money on Thursday, January 22nd and Friday, January 23rd, 2015, but instead to join together for prayer, fasting and PROTEST in their localities.
Protests will be held in front of state capitol buildings, busy intersections, and abortion facilities. No place is off limits and no one who profits from, supports, or condones pre-born child killing is immune from these protests.
Fr. Imbarato, chaplain of Project Defending Life, stated, “Let’s start protesting today and everyday leading up to a national strike. Let January 22, 2015, be the start of the national strike, which shuts this country down so that our government and the American people understand the urgency of ending legalized pre-born child-killing. It is time that the successful strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Polish Solidarity Movement led by Lech Walesa and Fr.Jerzy Popieluszko be implemented in the United States to end this injustice!”
We will not condone violence of any kind by anyone in this National Strike. Indeed, we are protesting the use of violence — against children in the womb. We will peacefully and prayerfully protest this violence.
For more information visit: @ [www.ProtestABQ.com]
Contact Info:
Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, frstephen@defendinglife.org
Tara Shaver, Media Spokesperson 505-319-7825 tara@defendinglife.org
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Also from a Jan. 7 email sent by the Survivors of the American Holocaust:
The Survivors declare that now is the time to stand together in solidarity as a people of conscience to end the killing of children in the womb.
Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust will be joining Protest ABQ, Operation Rescue, Created Equal, and other national pro-life organizations, as well as local citizens and groups, in a national protest and strike on January 22-23, 2015. America has endured 41 years of legalized abortion.
The anniversary of Roe vs. Wade is a day of mourning for all pro-life citizens, as it marks the decriminalization of abortion in America. To date, legal abortion has brutally claimed the lives of over 56 million American children. Survivors invites all those opposed to child killing not to go to work, not to go to school, and not to spend money on Thursday, January 22nd and Friday, January 23rd, 2015.
Instead, we will join together in solidarity in prayer, fasting, and peaceful protest at state capitol buildings, busy intersections, and abortion centers in Washington D.C. and our own communities, declaring to our national leaders that we want abortion to end.
This would be great IF it wound be widespread. Unfortunately, Catholics are NOT united in their attitudes regarding abortion., and other sins. Because of a total lack of leadership in the episcopacy and in the parishes, most Catholics are divided in regards to basic Christian morality. Since the 1960’s, very poor teaching of Catholic truths are responsible for the tremendous ignorance which pervades among the average Catholic. The Catholic Church has become neo-pagan in regards to morality and family values. In the 1950’s a strike or a boycott would have been successful, but now I am afraid it would only gather a few, since the majority are not interested and could not be distracted from soap operas, sports and other silly entertainments.
Fr. Karl, is it possible that the church has done a fairly good job of preaching and teaching about the evils of abortion, contraception, etc., but that the people in the pews just don’t believe it or agree that it is a sin? I just don’t know anyone, protestant, Catholic or nothing, that doesn’t know that the Church is against these things. Is it possible that our culture has moved beyond Church teachings? That is my suspicion. If that is the case, I doubt that we will ever get them back. Those of us, at least in the U.S. who are against abortion on demand are a very small minority. Is it possible we have lost the battle?
“Fr. Karl, is it possible that the church has done a fairly good job of preaching and teaching about the evils of abortion, contraception, etc’ Bob One I never once heard a single homily on these subjects until I attend the TLM. The awful cardinal Dolan himself admitted that in the 35 years as a priest he not once preached on these. Convicted out of this own mouth..yes we have lost the battle do to people like Dolan, Weakland, Bernandin, Gumbleton, the influx of gays into the priesthood, generally liberalism is the source of evil in the Church and that’s why we have lost
Bob One, even Cardinal Dolan does not agree with you regarding adequate teaching on Contraception.
https://www.knightsofdivinemercy.com/2012/07/04/cardinal-dolan-says-church-failed-to-teach-against-contraception/
Further the Diocese Bishops and Parish Priests (with some exceptions) have failed to encourage literate persons to read Sacred Scripture and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition” – which are the two most important books in the Faith.
1) Sacred Scripture in entirety is the speech of God (CCC 81);
2) The CCC contains the Doctrine of the Faith.
Their withholding this information and lack of teaching regarding reading these – may send some Souls to Hell. Therefore they will also be culpable at their own particular judgments.
The Church is not at fault. The Church encourages and has provided us with the Catholic Bible, and also the CCC.
It is the fault of many Bishops and many Priests who are too lazy to teach appropriately.
Put the blame where it belongs.
The CCC not only states the required Doctrine, but explains it, and in the footnotes tells us how each Doctrine came about – quoting the Bible, etc.
For quotes about the CCC from Popes Saint John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis go to:
“What Catholics REALLY Believe SOURCE”
https://whatcatholicsreallybelieve.com/
Those Catholics who support abortion are not only in the state of Mortal Sin, but are also heretics.
CCC: ” 2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.
Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves.
Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. ”
CCC: ” 2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense.
The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.
“A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,” “by the very commission of the offense,” and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.
The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed,
the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. ”
” DISTINCTION BETWEEN DIRECT ABORTION AND LEGITIMATE MEDICAL PROCEDURES ”
https://www.usccb.org/about/doctrine/publications/upload/direct-abortion-statement2010-06-23.pdf