Each January, Holy Family students, faculty, and staff brave frigid air in order to march on Washington, DC, with thousands upon thousands of other pro-life activists.
Holy Family Joins National March for Life
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tudents, faculty, and staff joined thousands of pro-life advocates from around the nation at the Annual March for Life in Washington, DC, on January 25. This is the seventh year that Holy Family University participated in the march to the U.S. Capitol to memorialize and protest the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. Led by Campus Minister Reverend James MacNew, OSFS, the group arrived in Washington in the morning
and celebrated Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. After Mass, they took buses to Union Station and walked to the March for Life rally at the Capitol. The rally included hours of stirring speeches, personal testaments, prayers, songs, and poetry readings. “Members of the Holy Family University community make the sacrifice of participating in the March For Life in any weather, not as a political act, but as lived spirituality,”
said Father MacNew. “The Holy Family University Mission and Core Values challenge us in every moment to recognize that each human person is created in the image of God, and that human persons, therefore, are sacred. Participation in the National March For Life is one more way in which members of the Holy Family University community incarnate the Mission of the University.”
This is the seventh year that Holy Family has led a group on the March for Life. The March memorializes and protests the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
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