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Jan. 6, 2021
Nicholas Wolfram Smith
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate a special Mass for the legal protection of unborn children and participate in an online roundtable on the future of the pro-life movement to mark this year’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
In a recent letter, Archbishop Cordileone said abortion is “a harsh marker of the ‘throwaway culture’ that Pope Francis decries” and encouraged archdiocesan Catholics to join him for a day of prayer and penance “to remedy this great evil” of abortion.
On Jan. 22, the archbishop will take part in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops “Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children” by offering a noon Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Mass will be open to the public and also live streamed.
The archbishop encouraged each parish in the archdiocese to celebrate a Mass for the same intention. By doing so, he said, “we will pray together but in safer smaller and separate gatherings for the restoration of the right to life for all, from conception to natural death.”
Later that afternoon, the archdiocese archbishop will join three pro-life leaders for a webinar on the direction of the pro-life movement in 2021.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, which focuses on policy and electing pro-life politicians, will speak, along with Charles C. Camosy, associate professor of social and theological ethics at Fordham University and a frequent writer on the consistent life ethic and Brian Duggan, executive director of Human Life Action.
Human Life Action is part of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life advocacy organization, the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, and a co-sponsor of the webinar along with the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Human Life & Dignity.
To register for the webinar, visit sfarch.org/legal-protection-unborn