Choose Life License Plates Now Available – Join the Celebration Next Thursday!
The Choose Life specialty license plate is on sale across the state, benefiting organizations that provide counseling and material assistance to pregnant women considering placing their unborn children for adoption, including pregnancy resource centers and Gabriel Projects.
Order your Choose Life plates today online at the TxDMV website or at your county's vehicle registration site and promote adoption wherever you drive!
On Thursday, December 8, we will celebrate this landmark for life, 10 years in the making, at aChoose Life License Plate Launch Celebration. The reception is from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 10110 Shoreview Drive, Dallas 75238. The sponsors of the legislation authorizing this specialty license plate are expected to be in attendance. RSVP to or call 512-477-1244. This event is open to the public at no charge.
Sponsored by Birth Choice, the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas, Concerned Women for America of Texas, The Heidi Group, Pro-Life Texas, Republican National Coalition for Life, St. Joseph's Helpers, and Texas Alliance for Life
Upcoming Pro-Life Events
Sidewalk Counseling and Prayer Partner Training this Saturday
Date: Saturday, Dec. 3
How can you save an innocent life? Come learn the Msgr. Philip Reilly method of peaceful, prayerful presence which has helped more than 22,000 mothers turn away from abortion in New York and 5,000 mothers here in Dallas. If you feel called to be a prayer partner for a sidewalk counselor, then this training is also for you!
The training is free, and a continental breakfast, light lunch and all materials will be provided. Pre-registration is required and available online atprolifedallas.org/sidewalk. For more information, contact Joanne Underwood, 469-767-5785 or .
Help us kick off The Bishop's 19th Annual Catholic Pro-Life Dinner (April 14, 2012) with a fun afternoon of fellowship and event planning. Friends who are interested in helping with the dinner are welcome! We are having a potluck. If you are planning to join us, RSVP to Tamara Baril at with the item you'd like to bring. Hope to see you there!
3 HOLY MASSES (8 PM, 3 AM, 7 AM) – ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT – CONFESSION – ROSARIES
Join in prayer for the protection of the sanctity of life. The Cloistered Carmelites will also be praying all night, and you may leave personal prayer requests with them. There will be food and drink available in the evening.
National Night of Prayer for Life unites parishes in an effort to end abortion through Eucharistic Adoration and prayers of reparation during the night hours spanning the Feasts of the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe’s first apparition to Saint Juan Diego. The “hour of unity” is from 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. (CT), so that all the parishes in the four time zones can be linked in prayer across our continent. Click here for a partial listing of participating parishes.
If your parish plans on participating, please let us know at 972-267-LIFE (5433) or . Sponsored by National Night of Prayer for Life.
On January 21, 2012, Dallas will mark the 39th memorial anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's tragic Roe v. Wade decision of January 22, 1973, making abortion available on demand in America through all 9 months of pregnancy and leading to the death of over 52 million unborn children. Join Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell and Fort Worth Bishop Kevin W. Vann, diocesan clergy and thousands of people of faith to pray for an end to the scourge of abortion on our city and country, to witness publicly, and rally and march for a Culture of Life.
Click here for a schedule of events including Roe Memorial Rosary and Mass, followed by Dallas March for Life and Rally. More information to come and available at prolifedallas.org/roe.
Voices 4Life is sponsoring a young adult (21+) trip to experience the thrill and excitement of marching with half a million pro-life friends at the National March for Life in DC on January 21-24. Possible activities will include attending the Cardinal O’Connor Conference for Life, touring DC, the March for Life and much more. Register at prolifedallas.org/voicesmarch. Early registration discount ends Dec. 5.
Learn more and help make decisions about lodging, travel and itinerary at the Informational Meeting this Saturday, Dec. 3 at 4 p.m. at the Original Pancake House in Addison. RSVP to . Bulletin Insert/Flyer
Youth For Life Trip to Texas Rally for Life in Austin
YFL is offering trip scholarships to 3 essay contest winners (submissions due by 8 p.m., Dec. 8). Learn more here.
For additional info, contact YFL Assistant Paul Borchard at 214-531-7285 or .
Breaking Pro-Life News
Congress to Probe Denial of Catholic Grant over Abortion by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
A House committee will hold a hearing next week on the decision by the [U.S. government] to deny to the nation’s Catholic bishops a grant for a program helping sex trafficking victims because it would not refer for abortions. . . . The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had previously received a five-year $19 million grant to help victims of sex trafficking . . . .
Sensitive to how women are exploited in the sex industry, the Catholic bishops prohibit any subcontractors from using the funds to pay for or promote abortions. Instead, the Catholic bishops provide comprehensive case management services to survivors including medical and mental health services. Read entire article.
Planned Parenthood Building Big North Texas Abortion Biz by Susan Tyrrell, LifeNews
Planned Parenthood, which makes its living aborting future generations of families, is expecting again. When it comes to Planned Parenthood in Texas, the favorite child is the Houston abortion facility that opened last year, offering a full range of services including late-term abortions. But in the works is a multi-million dollar abortion center in another part of the state, as Planned Parenthood of North Texas (PPNT) is in the midst of a capital campaign to replace its Fort Worth facility with a sprawling new center to expand its services. This facility is slated to open within the next year and a half. Continue reading.
Pope Benedict XVI encouraged countries around the world to end the death penalty as a legal sanction at his Nov. 30 general audience.
Addressing a group of pilgrims gathered in Rome for an international conference on the controversial topic, the Pope said he hopes that their deliberations “will encourage the political and legislative initiatives being promoted in a growing number of countries to eliminate the death penalty.” Continue reading.
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