Earlier this week, President Donald Trump pardoned activist Susan B. Anthony to mark the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Mary Hallan FioRito looks at
During a virtual commencement address, Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski told 2020 graduates that “if you really want to change the world, you must choose to be Catholic and carry Jesus into the public square.” Lipinski, a pro-life Democrat who was defeated during
Since 2005, Susan Walker Schulenberg has been making “Angel gowns” — burial gowns for abandoned newborns. What began as a single act of charity has launched into a full ministry, Rest in His Arms. And during the coronavirus pandemic, her ministry has
This year’s March for Life theme is “Pro-Life is Pro-Woman.” This theme, writes Mary Hallan FioRito, “is underscored by the historical record and the witness of the earliest feminists. It is supported by the selfless commitment of today’s pro-life women who are
In her book “The Second Sex,” feminist French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir wrote about women who’d had abortions: “The one thing they are sure of is this rifled and bleeding womb, these shreds of crimson life, this child that is not there