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Join us February 8 as we go social media silent in solidarity with their silence.

National Migration Week 2018 will take place January 7-13th. This year's theme is "Many Journeys, One Family." The theme coincides with the Caritas Internationalis migration campaign entitled "Share the Journey. . . ". National Migration Week provides an opportunity to raise awareness about the contributions of migrants, including refugees, and victims of human trafficking in our communities.

The BDF is a nonprofit, public interest, pro-life law firm that advances strategies supporting the cause of life, and attorneys Nick Nikas and Dorinda Bordlee accomplish part of their mission by appealing logically and intellectually to the young adults who will be the future Supreme Court justices, U.S. senators and elite medical specialists in America – people to whom arguments based on religion or Scripture often are hollow and unconvincing.Instead, Nikas appeals to the natural law.

"Even pain and suffering have meaning and value when they are experienced in close connection with love received and given." Evangelium Vitae (65, 97):

Please be aware of the signs of trafficking: http://polarisproject.org/recognize-signs if you see something, SAY SOMETHING!  It is better to report a suspicious incident & be wrong than to be right & say nothing. National Human Trafficking Hotline… 888-3737-888 — keep this number in your phone!

People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life.

Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.

According Dignitatis Humanae, "...the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person as this dignity is known through the revealed word of God and by reason itself.

God loves each human life from the instant of his or her conception and entrusts this gift to the protection of a mother and father. Abortion ends the life of a child  and offends God.  It also deeply wounds the men and women involved.

Defense of the right to life implies the defense of all other rights that enable the individual with the disability to achieve the fullest measure of personal development of which he or she is capable.

"By recalling the commandment, ‘You shall not kill,’ our Lord asked for peace of heart and denounced murderous anger and hatred as immoral.

Lord God, you alone have the power to instill the spark of life, yet, you have made humankind the stewards of creation. Help us to be faithful to this sacred trust so that we may protect and promote the dignity of every human life from the very moment of conception, particularly the tiniest humans in the embryonic stage of human development who are so often forgotten by society & used by modern science.

October is known as Respect Life Month, a time when the church shines a special light on the life issues. Can you tell us more about that?