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.

Next committee meeting will be October 15th at 7pm.  All are welcome! 

Upcoming events include

1) October 4th "Life Chain" Sunday, 2:00pm-3:00pm: we will be joining up at the Grace Community Church (7661 Mexico Rd) to 'stand up' and pray for preserving the sanctity of Life (we can park in their lot).

2) October 10th monthly ICD pro-life mass in the main church (8:00am).

3) October 18th 2020 Respect Life Convention: the annual St Louis Archiocesan pro-life convention will be a 'virtual' event this year due to COVID.  We will be providing a "live stream" opportunity for parishioners to participate in the afternoon session of the convention, starting at 1:00pm, in the ICD Parish Hall South.

4) October 24th "ICD Day", as part of the Fall 2020 '40 Days for Life' campaign, to pray at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Lindell for an end to abortion.  To sign up for your time, please contact Jeanne Redtman at 636-561-5322, or jredtman@centurytel.net.

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

Nov 3rd General Election - if you need to register to vote, go to the Missouri Secretary of State website (https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/register) to understand your options: on-line, in-person, or by mail.  Deadline to complete the registration process is Oct 7th.

USCCB on Abortion and Catholic Social Teaching

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".