Please forgive the vanity, but I want to make this an issue during the time of the March for Life.
There is also an alternate Sunday (in the case of scheduling problems).
I and a young woman (I'm old) put together Life Chain for tomorrow. We have our local parish as the background and a base to work from
We are the Citizens Concerned for Human Life and are part of the Pro Life Federation Of Pennsylvania. We are a 501 Corp. and we are not allowed to politic. It is why the Church likes our approach. We are filed as an educational group. Which means we can make the people aware of the pro abortion agenda of certain individuals but we can't tell people who to vote for or against.
In the years I have been involved I have had 1 non Catholic clergy voice a pro life. We have over 150 Churches in our area and each gets a letter and a phone call.
Our two priests are very active. In today's local paper the pastor wrote a two column article discussing Life Chain and people's participation
We are the only participants in our area. I have noticed the women clergy in several non Catholic Churches commenting positively about “Free Choice”
I don't know about the “Catholic Church's staging the event”.
What is needed is for the lay people to listen to their conscience and participate.