Dear Friends,

Since the leaked Draft Opinion from the US Supreme Court, indicating the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade, over forty individuals, organizations, churches and at least two dozen Prolife Pregnancy Care Clinics have faced incidents of intimidation, violence or vandalized often with threatening graffiti such as “if abortion aren’t safe than you aren’t either.” https://sbaprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6.15.22-Pro-Abortion-VandalismViolence-Interruptions-Of-Worship.pdf  And a few Clinics have been firebombed. Message’s from the pro-abortion hate group, Jane’s Revenge threatened: “We demand the disbanding of all antichoice establishments, fake clinics and violent antichoice groups within the next thirty days. We are forced to adopt the minimum military requirement for political struggle."

Dear Friends,

A season of change has come to the Diocese of Phoenix with the appointment of Bishop John Dolan, who will take over the helm in August from Bishop Olmsted. In many ways, the new Bishop is in a position to take the Diocese to the next level.

Dear Friends,

According to some news sources, “Homeland Security has officially notified the bishops there are credible threats to the safety of Catholic churches, clergy, and bishops if the Supreme Court overturns Roe. Violence has been called for beginning the night such a decision is handed down.” Sad and frustrating.

Dear Friends,

My first reaction to hearing of the school shooting in Uvalde was to go tense and queasy. Having run an elementary school for more than two decades, my first thoughts were “not again, dear Lord why and what if”? What if that were my school? Those were my kids? Whenever violence would erupt in a school I would always think “are we doing enough to keep the kids safe”?