Full-Page Ad in Waco Tribune-Herald. Friday, January 22, 2021. Be sure your name is one of ​the 600. Click for more information

In the U.S., there are approximately two million couples waiting to adopt. (More...)

9 Days for Life (Jan 21-29); Texas Catholic Pro-Life Day (Jan 28); Texas Rally for Life (Jan 28).

July 11: See the videos that launched the Planned Parenthood fetal organ harvesting controversy.

Our moral crisis in America has been made clear by Planned Parenthood's callous atrocities. Local communities should act and the Waco community is responding. There will be a large rally on Tuesday morning, July 28 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the McLennan County Courthouse. Please come. Please stand for life.

Election Day is November 4, 2014. You could be complicit in evil and therefore putting your soul in danger if you vote for a candidate who supports abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning or homosexual unions. Please read Bishop Ricken's statement on voting pro-life.

On October 8, 2013, Pope Francis announced that in October 2014 there would be an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on topics related to the family and evangelization. Subsequent communications made clear that the Extraordinary General Assembly would be followed by an Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2015, on the same topics.

The International Week of Prayer and Fasting brings together people of all ages, backgrounds, and races. From September 20th - 28th, 2014, we gather to pray for an end to the "culture of death", and for a new found appreciation for basic human rights, particularly in the United States of America.

On Saturday, September 13, 2014, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for Life and the Pro-Life Action League will co-sponsor the second annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, calling on pro-life Americans to honor the gravesites of our unborn brothers and sisters.

Latest edition of the Life Times Newsletter is available at the Diocese of Austin Website. Life Times is the quarterly publication of the Office of Pro-Life Activities and Chaste Living of the Austin Diocese.

Rome, May 23, 2014,Dr. Donald DeMarco -- In Chapter 11 of Evangelium Vitae, Saint John Paul II refers to abortion and euthanasia as attacks made against human life at the time of its greatest frailty. He calls our attention to the fact that these attacks are no longer regarded as "crimes," but as "rights". They are carried out by health-care personnel and, even more disturbingly, more often than not, with the approval of the family, which is called by nature to be "the sanctuary of life". This development, so widespread in its scope, so convoluted in its ethos, provoked the Holy Father to ask, "How did such a situation come about?" (Click on title to read full reflection.)

Join American Life League in the largest annual protest against the birth control pill and similar products in Waco and over 50 other U.S. cities: Saturday, June 7, 2014, 2-3 p.m. at the intersection of Valley Mills and Waco Drive [Look for the pro-life billboard truck.] For more information, click on the title.

A Bible study designed to heal the heartbreak of abortion. Sponsored by Care Net of Central Texas. For information click on the title.

Please join the Diocese of Austin on Saturday, January 25, 2015 in Austin, Texas for Texas Catholic Pro-Life Day. Click on title to see a listing of events.

This letter was distributed by the Texas Catholic Conference, which represents all bishops in the state of Texas. Click on the title to read the letter.