Respect For Life

The Respect Life Ministry at St. Catharine affirms and is committed to promoting the Catholic Church's teaching on the dignity, respect, care, and protection of human life from conception to natural death. This ministry strives to defend life in several ways, through: 

• Prayer - to promote programs of prayer in our community, so that the culture of death will be replaced with a culture of life.
• Education - to deepen respect for human life and heighten public opposition to abortion and euthanasia, and other threats against human life both in the Catholic Community and among the general public.
• Outreach - to help to promote public awareness of outreach programs, such a pregnancy help, chastity education, adoption, post abortion healing, care for the elderly and dying.
• Public Policy - coordinate and encourage advocacy on national, state, and local levels to promote laws that defend and protect all human life.

The Ministry meets every month. Our next meeting is Thursday, January 10th at 7:30 pm in the Hope Room at St Catharine Parish Center.

We also host a Book Club quarterly, with readings aimed at deepening our understanding of the Catholic teachings on human life, and to promote a deeper spiritual conversation about this topic. We are currently reading Love Unleashes Life by Stephanie Gray.  Come discuss on February 22 at 7pm. - location TBD.

Please send an email to ftrousdale@gmail.com if you are interested in helping in any way, and to be added to our Respect Life Ministry distribution list.