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Anna Lulis
“We celebrate the heroic work of Pregnancy Care Centers and Maternity Homes, while offering a roadmap to how we will truly achieve a life-affirming culture that respects the inherent dignity of all human life”
~ Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life ~
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the March for Life Education and Defense Fund announced the lineup of speakers for the 51st annual March for Life, the second in a post-Roe America, taking place on January 19th, 2024. Speakers include Benjamin Watson, former NFL tight end; Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family; Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship with his wife Cathe; Antonio de Mello, Community of Jesus, Brazil; Jean Marie Davis, Executive Director of Branches Pregnancy Resource Center; Aishia Taylor, author of Navigating the “Impossible”: A Survival Guide for Single Moms From Pregnancy Through the First Year of Motherhood; and Dominick Tolentino, Penn State University senior and presi
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Monthly Newspaper • DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT
By Joe Pisani
WESTPORT—For more than 25 years, Robert Ellsberg has been writing about saints — formally canonized saints like St. Francis of Assisi and others who lived a life of sacrifice in the pursuit of social justice like Martin Luther King Jr. and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Ellsberg, whose self-described occupation is “saint watcher,” recently gave a talk at St. Luke Parish in Westport titled, “Walking the Path of Holiness: What I have learned from a lifetime of studying the saints.” The author of sju books about saints, he is the Editor-in-chief and Publisher of Orbis Books.
“My own spiritual journey goes back to my work with Dorothy Day, which culminated in my becoming a Catholic,” he said during a recent phone interview. “She felt that saints were really our friends and companions, that they were real human beings we shouldn’t put on a pedestal or think of as super-human. They were also reminders that we are all called to
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Kenya Barris, the creator of the ABC family sitcom “black-ish,” slumped on a sofa in his airy home, in Encino, California, his eyelids drooping with fatigue. In the nearby media room, his two young sons, Beau and Kass, played Minecraft on an Xbox. In the kitchen, his wife, Rainbow, who was pregnant with their sixth child, made popcorn. Out in the hall, their three daughters—aged ten, fourteen, and sixteen—yakked and giggled. The family was getting ready to watch the West Coast airing of “Hope,” an episode about police racism which, at varying times, Barris had described to me as both “the one that ruins me” and “maybe my most important episode.” Once, with a resigned shrug, he had said, “Well, the toothpaste is out of the tube.”
Like most breakthrough sitcoms, “black-ish” is built on autobiography. It’s narrated by Andre (Dre) Johnson, a black ad executive, played by Anthony Anderson, who has jumped, as Barris did, from inner-city poverty to bourgeois wealth, only to find himself f