News - Life & Family (Respect Life) RSS Feed

From the Office of Life and Family Ministry

...for babies lost to abortion, stillbirth, early infant illness and miscarriage

Day of Remembrance, September 14th, 10 a.m. at Gate of Heaven Baby Land - We will pray for 1 hour at Baby Land: The Rosary & Special Prayers for babies that have been aborted, miscarried or have died an early and unexpected death.

Spencer Wood, a junior at Bishop Hendricken High School and parishioner of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in East Greenwich, recently made a donation to St. Gabriel’s Call...

One in three women have experienced some form of physical violence in an intimate relationship. Countless others have endured verbal, emotional and psychological abuse...

The recently-concluded 2019 legislative session in Rhode Island was a mixed bag for religiously-informed voters, notably in the passage...

Learn how to stay involved, help families in Rhode Island

The significant expansion of abortion approved today by the Senate is a sad day for Rhode Island...

Time is short! Please take action now for the Wed., June 19th vote!

The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee will be voting this Tuesday, June 11, on a New York style abortion expansion bill (H5125 Sub A) that has already passed the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Learn how you can help!

A bill that pro-life legal analysts said would have turned Rhode Island into an “abortion haven” failed to pass the Senate Judiciary Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Smith Hill will hear the New York and Virginia style extreme abortion bill this Tuesday.

With bills pending in the state House of Representatives and Senate, Rhode Island is the latest state to consider physician-assisted suicide...

TAKE ACTION: There is a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this Thursday, April 25th seeking to legalize Assisted Suicide in Rhode Island

If you have experienced an abortion, there is hope and healing. Come back to Jesus with all of your heart and experience His healing power as you begin your journey to wholeness once again. All calls are confidential. Click for more.

This event is sponsored by the Diocesan Life & Family Ministry and the Human Life Guild Board with “Support of the Knights of Columbus.” Join us!

The much-anticipated film, “Unplanned,” opened in theaters across the country last weekend. Based on the best-selling book of the same title, “Unplanned” is the autobiographical story of Abby Johnson, a former director of the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Bryan, Texas.

Hard-hitting, fact-based drama adapted from a memoir by Abby Johnson. During her rise to become one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the country,... Opens in theaters March 29th. Tickets and more at https://www.unplannedfilm.com/

For Dr. Holly Taylor Coolman, engaging with opponents in a respectful, peaceful way is an essential part of what it means to be “pro-life.”

A House Committee on Smith Hill will take up the Assisted Suicide Bill in Rhode Island this week.