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4. Life is a gift from
God. Our teaching
calls for respect for
human life in every
situation, but
especially for the
most vulnerable.
Who can be more
vulnerable than a
preborn child?

5. CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH:
"human life must be respected and
protected absolutely from the moment
of conception. From the first moment of
his existence, a human being must be
recognized as having the rights of a
person – among which is the inviolable
right of every innocent being to life.”

10. Correlation between Mass attendance and agreement with
the official teaching of the Church on the issue:
frequent Mass-goers are far more likely
to be anti-abortion, while those who
attend less often (or rarely or never) are
more likely to be in favor of abortion
rights under certain circumstances

14. Ten Ways
to Raise
Pro-Life
Children

15. 1. Make sure they spend time with
the greatest spokesmen for the pro-
life cause: nice little babies.

17. Children have a natural love of
babies and understand that the
life growing inside of a pregnant
woman is, in fact, a baby.

21. In order to raise our
children to be pro-life,
we start by nurturing
that love.

22. 2. Teach them
about civic
responsibility.

23. Teach young children
about human dignity

24. 3. Give them the whole pro-life
picture, from conception to natural
death.

25. Pro-life work includes saving women
and babies from abortion, but it also
means visiting nursing homes, treating
weirdos with respect, feeding the
hungry, helping a new mom with
babysitting, and anything else that
brings hope and comfort to other
people.

27. 4. Be forthright
about what the
Church teaches.

28. IVF, euthanasia, family
planning -- look into it
together, rather than
glossing over it or saying,
"Well, that's what the
Church says, so it must
be true."

29. Adapt what you tell your
children as they grow

30. Use theology of the body to talk
to preteens and teens

33. 5. Don't get sucked
into negativity or
infighting.

34. * Attacking Priests and Bishops
for not speaking out enough
* Open Season: Pope Francis and
the TLM Issue
* Seeming too much emphasis on
Caring for the Environment (and
not on babies)

35. 6. Even if you keep it positive, don't
let it be the only thing your family
does.

36. 7. Make it part
of routine
prayer.

38. 8. Be on guard
against
misogyny.

39. Motivated by the desire to humiliate
and punish women -- women who are
pregnant and single, women who are
considering abortion, women who
repent of their abortions, or just women
who have new ideas about the best way
to fight abortion

40. Mary didn't call Eve a slut or a whore,
even though Eve was the one whose sin
led to the death of Mary's Child. When
we're tempted to demonize women, we
can follow Mary's example of generous
love, and pray to see our own sins more
clearly.

41. 9. Model
courage in
speaking out
about pro-life
matters.

43. 10. Be joyful!

46. We know who
wins this fight in
the end.

54. How to raise pro-life
children

55. Pray about your pro-life
involvement

56. Be honest with young
children.

57. parents NEED not to
go into detail

58. Some questions need to be
answered:
like
Why would someone do this?

59. It helps to show the dichotomy that
there’s right and wrong, there’s
good and evil in our world. And this
is what we fight for.

60. Teach young children
about human dignity

61. It is important that they learn
about the dignity of every
human being,
even those working
in the abortion
industry

62. discussing human dignity
can be as simple as talking
to them about how God
created them as his
children and how he
creates everyone in his
image.

63. One approach: using the Visitation
(Luke 1:39–45). Explaining to young
children that there were four people
present — Elizabeth and John, Mary
and Jesus — will make sense to them
and place the seed of knowledge that
an unborn child is a human being.

64. Adapt what you tell your
children as they grow

65. Befriend other pro-life
families

66. Try different pro-life
activities

67. Pray at a 40 Days for Life
campaign

68. volunteer at a pregnancy
resource center

69. get involved in a political
campaign for a pro-life
candidate

70. Learn about pro-life
activities through your
parish

71. Teenagers and college
students can also begin a
Students for Life group

72. Don’t forget to lean on
God through all of this.

73. Sister Lucia’s Letter
to Cardinal Carlo
Cafarra in 2005

75. Sr. Lucia Dos
Santos

76. The final battle between the Lord and the
kingdom of Satan will be about Marriage and the
Family. Don't be afraid because whoever works for
the sanctity of Marriage and the Family will always
be fought against and opposed in every way,
because this is the decisive issue. … nevertheless,
Our Lady has already crushed his head’.”

78. To end:
3 Quotes from St. John Paul II