Pro-Life Groups Redouble Efforts to Help Moms in Need
Anticipating the overturn of Roe v. Wade, diocesan, parish pro-life groups mobilize Catholics to further help women and families, including through the program Walking With Moms in Need. When members of a pro-life team at the Rochester Area Catholic Family of Parishes in Michigan received a request for childcare this past week for a mom with young twins, rather than giving her a list of referrals, they started considering how they could get training to do the childcare themselves. "These are the ways that we're trying what we call redoubling our efforts," said Dr. Catherine Stark, a member of the Walking With Moms in Need (WWMIN) team at the group of parishes that includes St. Andrew in Rochester and St. Irenaeus and St. Mary of the Hills in Rochester Hills. "We're saying, 'Okay, if that's what you're asking, we're going to do our best to try to figure out how to do this within the way we can do it.'" Read more...