Pro-Life Resources

Romanesque carving of Christ with Cain after the murder of Abel. Autun, France. (photo: Jim Forest}

From the early days of Christianity, the protection of human life — from the womb to old age — has been a major priority for the Church. Safeguarding unborn children is a topic that has often been addressed in the pages of In Communion. A partial list of articles and essays on this topic follows.

Abortion and the Early Church

Contemporary Christians neglect the teachings of the Church Fathers on key moral and theological issues to their own peril. The earliest specific written references to abortion in Christian literature are those in the Didache … Read More

More Reading…

• Abortion and the Early Church
• The Sacredness of Newborn Life
• The Bitter Price of Choice
• Many Offering Death
• Treehouse: Saving Lives One by One
• True Free Choice
• Zoe Means Life
• On Homicide
• The Troublesome Word “Murder”
• Victims and Heroes
• Changing a Society Which has De-Valued Women and De-Humanized the Unborn
• On Abortion and Over-Population
• Learning to Be Peacemakers
• God-Given Life by Fr John Garvey
• The Other As Icon
• The Great Human Rights Issue of Our Time
• On Behalf of Unborn Children
• Cleansing By Tears
• We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us