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Walk for Life West Coast | A Photo Gallery | January 2008 | Ignatius Insight
From the Walk for Life West Coast website:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 19, 2008 -- A woman who was aborted and survived today urged a crowd of 25,000 to forgive and sent
out a blessing of "mercy and grace and redemption" over the life of anyone who has had an abortion.
After the speeches, the crowd walked along San Francisco's waterfront for 2.5 miles in the 4th Annual Walk for Life West Coast,
carrying banners that proclaimed "Abortion Hurts Women" and "Women Deserve Better®." About 250 pro-choice protestors chanted
and jeered alongside the pro-life walkers.
"I was aborted and did not die," Gianna Jessen told the cheering crowd, but added, "I will limp my way into heaven" because
she bears the mark of the saline abortion, cerebral palsy, that was meant to end her life at a Los Angeles clinic.
"The abortionist signed my birth certificate," Jessen said. However, she noted, "My life is not defined by abortion.
I am not a victim, I am a victor." Jessen was one of four speakers at the Walk for Life rally at the foot of Washington Street
and the Embarcadero. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., BlackGenocide.org founder Rev. Clenard Childress,
and radio host Jesse Romero also spoke. Eight California Catholic bishops were on hand to support the event.
Read the entire piece.
Below are photos from the Walk for Life West Coast 2008, taken by Gerald Augustinus.
The Golden Gate Bridge, January 19, 2008
An estimated 25,000 people took part in the March for Life West Coast 2008
The front of the March.
Marchers gather at Park Ferry Plaza, site of the rally.
Some of the youth groups that participated in the March.
Sisters of Life.
Father Frank A. Pavone, MEV. National Director, Priests for Life.
Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
BlackGenocide.org founder Rev. Clenard Childress.
Gianna Jessen, abortion survivor.
Auxiliary Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, San Diego, who gave the opening prayer.
Archbishop George Niederauer, San Francisco, and Bishop Ignatius Wang, San Francisco.
Meeting the bishops.
Eva Muntean, co-chair for the March, is recognized for her hard work.
Related IgnatiusInsight.com Articles, Interviews, and Book Excerpts:
• Interview with Eva Muntean, Walk for Life WC 2005
• "Women Deserve Better Than Abortion" | Walk
for Life West Coast 2006
• What Is "Legal"? On Abortion, Democracy, and Catholic
Politicians | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
• The Illusion of Freedom Separated from Moral Virtue | Raymond L. Dennehy
• Introduction to Three Approaches to Abortion | Peter Kreeft
• Some Atrocities are Worse than Others | Mary Beth Bonacci
• Personally Opposed--To What? | Dr. James Hitchcock
• Speaking Up For Life | Interview with Deirdre McQuade
• Deadly Architects | Interview with Donald De Marco and Benjamin Wiker
• What Is Catholic Social Teaching? | Mark
Brumley
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Dogma And Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to
Daily Life (2nd Ed)
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
This volume is an unabridged edition of Dogma and Preaching, a work that appeared in a much-reduced form in English, in 1985. The new book contains twice as much material as first
English edition. "Dogma", for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn't be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds,
guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus' disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword
to this book, "The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching has become very troublesome." Finding ways to relate the content of the Church's dogmas to everyday life can be
challenging for today's preachers and teachers. Some people find the task so daunting that they leave dogma out. As a result, they wind up presenting something other than the
Church's faith and speak in their own name, offering perhaps unwittingly merely their own, subjective ideas, rather than the Word of God. In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian
and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church's dogmas; (3) meditations
and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity's seeming irrelevance.
Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars... Read more!
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