KNIGHTS IN ACTION

Lafayette Council #3970 Supporting Zelie’s Home

Thanks to the generosity of the St. Michael Parish community and the Knights of Columbus, we were able to present Erin Hathaway, Zelie's Home Executive Director, with a check for $4,515, with another $400 to come from Supreme, to support their mission, empowering pregnant and parenting women on the road to self-sufficiency. She gave my wife and me a tour of their facilities, currently housing eight women and their children. The physical, emotional, and spiritual support they provide is nothing less than inspiring and impressive. They appreciate all donations monetary and otherwise. View their website (Zelie's Home (zelieshome.org)) to learn more about their program, how you can help, and what donations they need. Attached are photos of the check presentation with Erin, me, and Fr. John.

Protect Them Both: Defeat Ohio’s Proposed Abortion Amendment

Diocese of Cleveland

The “Protect Them Both” Campaign been launched in our diocese to raise the awareness of every Catholic parishioner with the message to VOTE NO on the proposed November Ohio constitutional amendment entitled, “Ohio Right to Make Reproductive Decisions Including Abortion Initiative.”

The primary goal of the initial phase of this campaign is to:

• PRAY ceaselessly

• EDUCATE everyone

Our diocesan plan to OPPOSE the proposed Ohio constitutional amendment that would support legalized abortion beyond the current (albeit not enforced) prohibition beyond the six-week (or heartbeat) marker will continue to increase with voter registrations offered at several parishes and the increased awareness of the essential need to vote “NO” in the November elections. As always, the Catholic church in the Diocese of Cleveland stands ready to assist and accompany all women in unexpected and/or emergent pregnancies through initiatives such as Walking With Moms in Need as well as a multitude of Pregnancy Resource Centers in each of the eight counties within our diocese.

We invite you to browse through the many educational resources and other opportunities that call each one of us, by our baptismal call and as the body of Christ, to help to spearhead legislation to make it easier for mothers (and fathers and families) to be supported so that they can provide a loving and thriving home for their families.

We want to provide multiple resources within our parish communities, schools, and organizations, including all pastors and pastoral staffs, educators, catechists, all those in ministry and all the faithful in our diocese. We hope they will illuminate the issue so that we can defeat the threat to the right to life which is centrifugal to our inherent dignity as human beings made in the image and likeness of God. To this end, EVERY parish will be receiving educational flyers (to be used as bulletin inserts, if you choose) and prayer cards for mass distribution by this first weekend in May. These resources are being provided by the Catholic Conference of Ohio, in collaboration with the Office for Human Life and with the support and approval of all the Bishops of Ohio.

Visit Protect Them Both | Catholic Diocese of Cleveland | Cleveland, OH for more information.