Black Catholic pro-life apostolate announces 'Rosary Across America'

Published: 2006-01-11

NEW YORK (CNS) -- The New York-based National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life will hold its second annual "Black Catholic Rosary Across America for Life" Jan. 23 to mark the 33rd year since the Supreme Court legalized abortion virtually on demand. Black Catholics and people of life are invited to pray the rosary for life on that day to end abortion and all acts of violence against human life, said Franciscan Father James Goode, the apostolate's founder and president. On Jan. 22, 1973, the court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision, which threw out most state restrictions on abortion, and its companion decision, Doe v. Bolton, which permitted abortions through all nine months of pregnancy. "By praying the 'Black Catholic Rosary Across America for Life,' we as black Catholics are committed through the intercession of Mary, the mother of life to impact our community with the message of life and change lives and attitudes," the priest said in a news release.

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