As thousands gathered in Washington to hear politicians, bishops, and at least one surfer speak against abortion at the national March for Life, a smaller crowd gathered in Tonawanda also to hear from pro-life advocates. Catholic Diocese of Buffalo Sound Hub · January 24, 2025 – Diocese hosts Pro-Life Mass on eve of National March […]
In the latest Journeys & Insights, Bishop Michael W. Fisher invites all the faithful for a special Pro-Life Mass on Jan. 23 at St. Christopher Church in Tonawanda where we will pray for the unborn.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Diocese of Buffalo will not host a trip to the March for Life 2025 in Washington, D.C., this year. Instead, the Respect Life office will hold a Vigil for Life Mass on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 6 p.m., at St. Christopher Parish, 2660 Niagara Falls Blvd., in Tonawanda. Father Peter […]
WASHINGTON — March for Life President Jeanne Mancini opened the Celebrate Life Conference on Friday, June 21, with an impassioned speech calling for pro-life advocates to embrace a new season of fighting for the unborn. At the event held at the Westin Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., Mancini shared her recollection of the moment she […]
In his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, the late Elie Wiesel, reflecting on the Holocaust, and his personal experience of it – being in the same World War II Nazi concentration camps where his mother, father and sister were murdered, and coming very close to being executed himself – voiced these profound words: “I […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although the pro-life movement is most commonly associated with conservative politics, one group of left-wing pro-life activists is working to change that perception. Members of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) and other pro-life progressives gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Jan. 19, to call for an end to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At this year’s March for Life vigil Mass in Washington, D.C., Arlington Bishop Michael Burbidge called on those gathered in the packed Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to “bring light to the darkest corners.” The evening vigil and Mass took place almost two years after the fall of […]
WASHINGTON – Human life remains gravely threatened by legalized abortion in most states and it continues to be aggressively promoted at the federal level, said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. Our prayers, sacrifices, and efforts to protect human life have never […]
The Office of Pro-Life Activities will be sponsoring a bus to Washington, D.C., so members of the Diocese of Buffalo can participate in the March for Life this January. Join the Buffalo Diocese and hundreds of thousands of Catholics and others in solidarity for a pilgrimage of public witness, penance and prayer. The bus will […]
On the eve of the rally, a Mass opening the National Prayer Vigil for Life was held inside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Thousands filled the massive church, and many had to stand throughout the proceedings. Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, delivered a message of […]
