A Comprehensive Pro Life Checkmate Strategy

A COMPREHENSIVE PRO-LIFE

CHECKMATE STRATEGY

(for Adults and Youth)

by Fr. Jim Whalen

2000, Issue 3

SPIRITUAL STRATEGY:

A. Perpetual Adoration.

B. Active Prayer Life-Style: Mass; Holy Hours; Scripture; Crusades; Retreats; Rosary.

C. Bishop’s Pastorals on Marriage, Sexuality & Chastity; Priests Preaching on Sexual Morality; Application of Familiaris Consortio re: Communion Reception, in Sacrament of Reconciliation.

D. Marriage Preparation Courses and Seminarian Training to emphasize Pro-Life Spirituality; Pro Life Encyclicals, Natural Family Planning, Palliative Care.

E. Children Prayer Crusades.

LEADERSHIP STRATEGY:

A. Proper use of authority: Teach what Catholic Church Teaches re Pro-Life rather than personal opinion, preference or interpretation. ( Catholic Pro-Life Papers & Organizations: i.e. Priests For Life, Canada).

B. Clearing out the dissenting theologians and teachers from Seminaries and Universities and Schools.

C. In Catholic Institutions, employ only teachers, professors, etc. who accept all Catholic Pro-Life Church Teaching and give witness by living out this belief. Promote Pro-Life Leadership.

EDUCATION STRATEGY:

A. Re-educate Catholic Educators in Christian Sexuality and Chastity. (Conferences, Symposium etc.).

B. Stop inadequate unorthodox sex education programs at all levels: replace with orthodox teaching.C Use television, Radio, Internet, Newspaper, etc. to promote Civilization of Love & Culture of Life.

PRO-LIFE TRAINING & SUPPORT:

A. Seek out and train Volunteers to lead Parishes & Communities in Pro-Life Activities.

B. Establish Pro-Life Teams in every Diocese, Parish and School.

C. Train and Mandate Pro-Life Teachers in every Diocese Parish and School.

D. Tithing at the Diocesan and Parish levels to support Pro-Life Work.

ECUMENICAL AND CIVIL OUTREACH:

A. Conduct Ecumenical Prayer Services to promote Pro-Life Culture and Resist The Culture of Death.

B. Collaborate & Network with other faiths and organizations in Pro-Life Work without compromising Catholic Teachings.

C. Support Pro-Life Candidates and Leadership in Governments.

D. Co-operate in joint campaigns to end Contraception, Abortion, Sterilization, Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, poverty, and other perversions; to defend and protect life at all stages; to promote Natural Family Planning and adoption on local, national and international levels.