The center's basement was bustling with 47 young adults, students from Boston-area colleges, chatting and checking their phones. Star Wars and Indiana Jones posters hung on the wall across from an icon of the crucifixion, and a bookshelf containing catechisms, biographies of the saints, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. These students weren't mere college partiers. They were pilgrims, preparing for a two-day journey to Washington D.
Roberge, a lifelong Catholic, has always been pro-life. He collected diapers and other baby items with the Knights of Columbus in his hometown of Marshfield. When he entered BC, he leaned more into his faith. There, on the morning of Jan. They seem like they're really living the Gospel and have a good energy around them, and they're a good example of showing a lot of love to women and care and compassion. And that's what we need in the pro-life movement. He began making pro-life bumper stickers, and runs a website dedicated to them.
One girl wore a t-shirt reading "I'm in my Jesus era. Elizabeth Lollar, a missionary with St. Paul's Outreach who works at the Catholic Center, said that the talks "put a face and a name" to the pro-life issue. She felt "helpless" about abortion until she discovered ways she could help. Her Catholic faith was strengthened in college, and so was her activism.
She frequently engages with people who disagree with her pro-life stance, especially on college campuses. Rather than trying to convince them, she wants to ask them questions and have a two-way conversation about their beliefs. She doesn't sidestep the emotions that the issue can create. Dionisi, however, keeps the focus on facts when he talks with the opposing side.
He considers himself a logical person. Henning and pilgrims from parishes, seminaries and schools throughout the Archdiocese of Boston. Wade, Abgasi said "there's still a lot of work to do. Now that the legality of abortion is up to the states to decide, Agbasi sees himself fighting 50 battles instead of just one.
