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From Wed., Sept. 28 through Sun., Nov. 6 we'll hold 40 days of peaceful, prayerful vigils and Rosaries for life and for an end to abortion at the public right-of-way outside 175 Broad St., Providence. 40 Days held in collaboration with RI Right to Life. Learn more or sign up now!

This year, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities invites Catholics to “practice radical solidarity and unconditional love” for pregnant and parenting mothers...

Meet us Sat., Sept. 24 at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick Church, 244 Smith St., Providence. Together we will walk to the RI State House and prayerfully walk around it three times for life. This event is the kick-off to our 40 Days for Life Fall 2022 campaign and is in collaboration with RI Right to Life.

Register now to attend Bishop Tobin's annual Human Life Guild Day, Sat., Oct. 1 at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence. The day begins with Holy Mass with Bishop Tobin, then brunch and three nationally known speakers. Click for more and/or to register.

As Catholics approach the polls, we are asked to weigh many important issues...

PROVIDENCE — Indicating that 70% of Rhode Islanders support abortion rights, Gov. Daniel McKee signed into effect an executive order on July 5 declaring Rhode Island to be a sanctuary state for out of state persons seeking abortion.

Use of taxpayer dollars for abortions, legalized assisted suicide fail to advance

“The majority in the House of Representatives voted last Friday to pass the most unjust and extreme abortion on demand bill our nation has ever seen. Answering the needs of women by promoting taxpayer-funded elective abortion, as this bill would do, is a grave evil and a failure to love and serve women. Offering free or low-cost abortions, instead of increasing the resources women need to care for themselves and their children, is not ‘choice’ but coercion and callous abandonment. Simply repeating the mantra that abortion is healthcare doesn’t make it so. Deliberately ending the lives of defenseless and voiceless human beings is the antithesis of healthcare....

In response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has scheduled another House vote to try to enshrine abortion on demand in federal law through the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act, H.R. 8296. The vote will be held TODAY. Click now to take action!

June 24, 2022, was an important day in our nation’s history. On that day the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade....

WASHINGTON (Catholic News Service) — In a 6-3 decision June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its nearly 50-year-old decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in this country.

The Catholic Church has been clear and consistent in teaching that abortion is a grave moral evil. The Second Vatican Council decreed that abortion is an “unspeakable crime.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church insists that “human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception...Direct abortion is gravely contrary to the moral law.” In recent years, all of the popes have spoken clearly in condemning abortion. Pope Francis has said, simply and powerfully, “Abortion is murder.”

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CNS) — With Ada’s first pregnancy, she didn’t have the support, she didn’t know the resources available to her. She often ran out of diapers and clothes and had trouble finding people to talk to about it. Her OB-GYN suggested that she reach out to St. Gabriel’s Call, a ministry of the Diocese of Providence dedicated to easing a mother’s worries by providing families with diapers, toiletries, cribs, baby carriers and many other items.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.— Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, Bishop of Providence, announced a commitment to double the assistance provided to pregnant and new mothers as well as their children through the Saint Gabriel’s Call ministry.

TODAY, Tues., May 31 - Stand with us at anytime from 3 to 6 p.m. at the RI Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, at the Rhode Island State House, Room 313. Please wear blue.

Tell the members of the General Assembly you don't want to foot the bill for someone else’s abortion. Currently pending House bill 7442 and Senate bill 2549 propose using your tax dollars to fund abortions for state workers and people on Medicaid. Click for contact information...

THIS THURS., MAY 19 - RI House Finance Hearing on Tax Funded Abortion! *Say NO to Taxpayer-Funded Abortion-on-Demand!*

What is the choice? Is it to kill or not to kill an innocent, defenseless human being? A majority of elected RI representatives and senators have already passed a radical New York pro-abortion law which forces the state to deny legal protection to unborn children throughout all nine months. The 2019 law codified and expanded abortion rights in Rhode Island, making it easier for women to obtain late-term abortions for virtually any reason. To add insult to injury, these same anti-life politicians now intend to force taxpayers to fund the killing of the unborn, treating them as disposable objects.

With the joys of Ecclesiastes in mind, which tells us that to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven, St. Clare Parish, on May 4, hosted the first annual evening of “A Toast to Life & Liberty!”, an event conceived and organized by Maria Parker, former coordinator of the diocesan Office of Life & Family.