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Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
Dear Editor,
Ernest Ohlhoff's excellent piece in the Jan. 2002 issue of NRL News, dealing with Abortion and the Pulpit, addressed the reluctance of many pastors to preach on abortion.
Some time ago a close priest friend of mine told me of his reluctance to preach on abortion due to his experience of two women breaking into tears during his homily. I asked him to reconsider, as I am asking all pastors to so reconsider, because their gift of teaching/preaching could be extremely helpful to women and girls either considering having an abortion or who have had abortions.
The tears of the women were a sign of the hurt they continue to experience since their abortions. That hurt won't go away if pastors cease to preach on abortion. Rather it will only go away if pastors and others help the women open themselves to the healing love of God. For whatever reason, they have taken the human lives of their children - - but these children continue to exist and their mothers need to be reconciled with them. I have read several letters from women who ...
- Pastors and Abortion: Part II.
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News February 1, 2002 700+ words
...living baby. Abortion is wrong. Women who have abortions often have...participate in an abortion - - it is simply...personally had a few pastors give me this...involved in abortion, but the pastor just doesn...who have had abortions and gently...
- Pastors alerted police to man's interest in abortion clinic bombings.
- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) November 13, 2003 700+ words
...differed from his pastors', he left the...plotting to bomb abortion clinics in Broward...First Baptist Pastor Jerry Williamson...of several of the pastors as to our interpretation...violence against abortion clinics." Despite...those who performed abortions," Williamson wrote...
- Pastors Who Preach on Abortion May Be Surprised at the Congregation's...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News Ohlhoff, Ernest January 22, 1999 700+ words
...Our hypothetical pastor is pro-life but...congregation who may have had abortions. Over the years the pastor carefully couched...of partial-birth abortion was the straw that...those who have had abortions. He delivered the...
- Pastors take abortion protest to Supreme Court steps: March designed to get...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Williams, Clarence October 12, 1999 700+ words
A small group of black pastors speaking out against the big issue of abortion ended a four-day march at...blacks nationwide, whose abortion rates are the highest of any...my age is a survivor of the abortion age," Mr. Vernon said...
- Pastor's crusade aims to halt wave of black abortions: `It's killed more than...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Duin, Julia January 10, 1997 700+ words
...a street near an abortion clinic in Buffalo...Barbara Kirk, a pastor's wife, really...t funny to the pastor was the escorts...nation's highest abortion rates of any race...million U.S. abortions have taken place...with some black pastors in Birmingham and...
- Pastors back Harris, citing abortion, gays.
- Newspaper article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) October 25, 2006 700+ words
...seven Central Florida pastors and Christian leaders...Christian voters. The pastors cited Nelson's position on abortion -- he generally supports abortion rights -- and his opposition...said Alex Clattenburg, pastor of Orlando's Church...
- Village: Crosses Must Go // Pastor Vows to Fight For Abortion Protest
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ANDREW HERRMANN May 13, 1995 700+ words
...perhaps. Liberty's pastor, the Rev. Paul Lindstrom...represent the daily number of abortions in America. Roger Fox...United States by way of abortion." The sign urges people to pray for an end to abortion. The foot-high crosses...
- Facing "Black Genocide" is Pastor's Challenge to The African American...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News Ohlhoff, Ernest L. October 1, 2002 700+ words
...total number of abortions." Whether speaking...press interviews, Pastor Clenard Howard Childress...highest rate of abortion. As African Americans...presenting his call to abortion awareness and repentance for abortion, Pastor Childress draws...
Source: HighBeam Research, Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)