Category Archives: Respect Life

Sixth in a nine month series Written by Mike Roche’s father: Bill Roche, A parishioner of St. Mary Star of the Sea, Diocese of Venice Your spiritually adopted baby is developing quite beautifully.  Her weight is approaching 2 pounds.  She sits up straight now to accommodate her internal organs which have moved into their final place…

Fifth in a nine month series Written by Mike Roche’s father: Bill Roche, A parishioner of St. Mary Star of the Sea, Diocese of Venice Your spiritually adopted baby now weighs over one pound, and her mother can feel her movement.  Before this time she was too small for her mother to feel her.  Although she…

Fourth in a nine month series  Remember her? She is the little baby you spiritually adopted. She now weighs six ounces. She has fingernails and eyelashes. She has her own unique fingerprints, which will remain the same until she dies. Her taste buds are working. Her sense of hearing is developing and has been present…

“The challenge facing you, dear friends, is to increase people’s awareness of the importance for society of religious freedom; to defend that freedom against those who would take religion out of the public domain and establish secularism as America’s official faith. And it is vitally necessary for the survival of the American experience, to transmit…