Vigil for Life summons Catholics to be apostles of ‘a civilization of love’

While continuing to work to change laws to protect the unborn and support pregnant women in need, “we need to redouble our efforts to continue building, in the words of St. John Paul II, ‘a culture of life and a civilization of love,'” Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, said Jan. 22.

“We need to continue to pray and work to change hearts,” he said in his homily at the opening Mass of the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life Jan. 22-23, preceding the March for Life, which takes place Jan. 23 this year.

Jan. 22 is also observed by Catholics in the U.S. as the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. The date recalls the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jan. 22, 1973, decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, which legalized abortion nationwide as a constitutional right until the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

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