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Respect Life Sunday is October 4, 2009. This year's theme is Every child brings us God's smile." It comes from a homily of Pope Benedict XVI (January 7, 2007, Feast of the Baptism of the Lord).
Topics addressed in this year’s Respect Life Program reflect the diversity of pro-life concerns:
- the way ahead in building a culture of life (by Cardinal Justin Rigali)
the essence of human dignity
- assisted suicide
- facts about contraception
- infertility
- same-sex marriage
Since 1972, the Respect Life Program has brought Church teaching on the value and dignity of human life to the Catholic community and the wider public. The program combines education, prayer, service and advocacy. Respect Life Sunday is observed in virtually all of the 195 Catholic dioceses in the United States.
Please contact your local parish for information on events and materials related to Respect Life Sunday.
To access information provided by the USCCB, click this link.
For more information on Liturgy planning, please contact Dean Daniels, Office for Worship at danielsd@archmil.org or 414.769.3349.
If you have additional questions, please direct them to Lydia LoCoco, Director, The Nazareth Project for Marriage and Family, at lococol@archmil.org or 414-.758.2214
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