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The Office of Life and Family Ministry of the Diocese of Providence is offering a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat ‘Hope and Healing’ Support Group at St. Pius V Church, 240 Eaton St., Providence on Saturdays as listed below from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. This support group is specifically designed for women who have gone through a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat.

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!

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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...

Join us at this special memorial service for lost children as we gather to remember all the aborted children and all babies who have died due to miscarriage, stillbirth, and illness.

The HUMAN LIFE GUILD RECOGNITION AWARD is an award given by the Diocese of Providence on an annual basis to outstanding individuals that are Catholic who have a willingness to accept the invitation to be "People of Life,” to have an unconditional commitment to human life, to promote and defend human life at every stage, in every condition, through thought, word, deed and prayer. Click for nomination form. Deadline Sept. 8.

Join the Diocese of Providence at our upcoming peaceful, prayerful, and respectful activities for life - - supporting the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death. For details, please contact Lisa Cooley, lcooley@dioceseofprovidence.org, 401-278-2518.

EDINBURGH, Ind. (CNS) — Melissa Coles received a call in the late summer of 2019. She didn’t listen long before she figured it was a prank call and hung up. When the person called back, she hung up again. “On the third call, they had all the producers on the line — Kirk Cameron and the Kendrick brothers,” she said, referring to Alex, Shannon and Stephen Kendrick, producers of Christian films such as “Fireproof,” “War Room” and “Courageous.” “They said they wanted to make (the documentary) ‘I Lived on Parker Avenue’ into a movie.”

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.

On Saturday, August 27 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at St. Pius V Church, 240 Eaton St., Providence. This support group is specifically designed for women who have gone through a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat. Click for more. All inquiries confidential.

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.”