Pro-Life Information

The ICD Pro-Life Committee coordinates pro-life activities in our parish.  These activities range from prayer, education, provision of real alternatives to abortion, and promotion of public policies which protect the right to life. The committee meets on the third Thursday of each month.

Our next committee meeting is scheduled for November 19th at 7pm; our December meeting will be on the 10th at 7pm (meetings are in the Social Hall, South).  All are welcome! 

Upcoming events include

1) October 4th "Life Chain" Sunday, 2:00pm-3:00pm: we joined up with the Grace Community Church on Mexico Rd to 'stand up' and pray for preserving the sanctity of Life.

2) October 18th 2020 was the annual St. Louis Archdiocesan Respect Life Convention.  Respect Life Convention book

3) October 24th was "ICD Day", as part of the Fall 2020 '40 Days for Life' campaign, when we prayed at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Lindell for an end to abortion.  Thanks to all who participated in making this a success!!

4) October 27th Patriotic Rosary event @ 7:00pm (http://www.patrioticrosary.com/patriotic-rosary.html ), with music by the ICD Music ministry, as we prayed for the successful election on November 3rd of Pro-Life candidates to public office -- at every level of government: federal, state, and local.

5) December 12th will be our monthly ICD pro-life mass in the main church (8:00am).  This gloriously falls on the same day as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe!

6) December 'Christmas Pro-Life Giving Tree' - will be looking for volunteers to deliver donations collected for various organizations that support mothers and their new-born babies!

Nov 3rd General Elections

Results in Missouri: state House now 114 Pro-life reps v. 49 pro-abortion reps; state Senate now 24 Pro-life v. 10 pro-abortion!  State-wide pro-life office holders re-elected (Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Sec. of State, and Treasurer)!!  Pro-life Ann Wagner re-elected to U.S. Congress as rep for the 2nd District. 

USCCB on Abortion and Catholic Social Teaching

Archbishop Naumann - Priorities at the Polls

2020 Party Platform Comparisons

From Saint John Paul II (1988, Christifideles Laici)

“Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights – for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture – is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination”.

From Saint John Paul II (1998, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae, 18)

Today, when the inviolable rights of the human person are proclaimed and the value of life publicly affirmed, the most basic human right, "the right to life, is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death".