Priests for Life, the largest Catholic-inspired organization focused on ending abortion, is actually a family of interrelated projects and programs, including Gospel of Life Ministries, Rachel's Vineyard, Deacons for Life, Seminarians for Life, Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, Civil Rights for the Unborn, Hispanic Outreach, Stand True Youth Outreach, Political Responsibility, Prayer Campaign, Life on the Line Media Outreach, and the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues. Our Pastoral Team includes Janet Morana (co-founder of the Silent No More Campaign), Evangelist Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.), Marie Smith (International outreach), Dr. Theresa and Kevin Burke (co-founders of Rachel's Vineyard), Bryan Kemper (founder of Stand True), and others who work with the ministries that comprise the Priests for Life Family. Denis Wilde, OSA serves fulltime as Associate Director. Various priests and deacons around the country serve in a part-time capacity. Overview of Activities: Our Family of Ministries
Priests for Life (direct ministry to priests)
Our priests offer clergy seminars in dioceses, training materials for preaching and counseling, and individual consultation for clergy on the pro-life dimensions of their ministry. Deacons for Life
Deacons often have opportunities not available to priests to promote the Gospel of Life. We train, encourage, and mobilize them, too. Seminarians for Life
Those who are training for the ministry need to know, from the beginning, the ways in which they can prepare to be effective advocates for life. We therefore reach out to seminarians and provide them the tools and the example by which they can proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of Life. This involves presentations in seminaries, online resources, and more. Missionaries of the Gospel of Life (pro-life spirituality for clergy and laity)
Being pro-life, and doing pro-life activities, is not a hobby or simply rooted in an ideology or political platform. It is a spirituality, and is rooted in our discipleship. We therefore teach both clergy and laity the spirituality of being a Missionary of the Gospel of Life, and how that spirituality shapes pro-life strategy and tactics. Rachel's Vineyard
Under the Priests for Life umbrella is the world's largest ministry for healing after abortion. Rachel's Vineyard holds hundreds of retreats each year for men and women who have lost children to abortion. Silent No More Awareness Campaign
A project of Priests for Life and Anglicans for Life, the Silent No More Awareness Campaign is the world's largest mobilization of men and women who have lost a child to abortion, have experienced healing, and now want to share their testimony. The Campaign promotes healing and a greater awareness of the wounds abortion causes. Civil Rights for the Unborn
Evangelist Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the director of Civil Rights for the Unborn, which is the outreach program of Priests for Life to the African-American community and beyond, with the theme that the civil rights movement of today is the pro-life movement! Hispanic Outreach
Both in the US and around the world, we are assisting communities of Hispanic heritage to build the Culture of Life. Gospel of Life Ministries
Gospel of Life Ministries brings to an interdenominational audience the wide variety of pro-life work that Priests for Life does. Youth Outreach
Bryan Kemper, is the founder and president of Stand True Ministries, a Christ-centered pro-life outreach determined to awaken the youth of this country and share the message of life and the Gospel of Christ. He has spent years reaching out to youth and encouraging this generation to get involved, and now he continues that outreach with Stand True Ministries, which the youth outreach of Priests for Life. Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI)
Marie Smith is the Director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI). PNCI equips and encourages legislators around the world to defend the unborn in their own countries. PNCI also provides a pro-life witness at the United Nations and in other international arenas, and educates the public on pro-life efforts internationally. Life on the Line
Life on the Line is our broadcast ministry (radio, television, internet, social media and podcasting), consisting of daily live and pre-recorded programs, interviews by the members of our pastoral team, and short spots provided to media outlets around the world, including EWTN, Bott Radio Network, Radio Maria, and many more. Prayer Campaign
All we do is rooted in prayer, which both undergirds and fosters productive action. At PrayerCampaign.org, we foster prayer campaigns throughout the year, corresponding to various liturgical and secular seasons and holidays. Political Responsibility
As both citizens of heaven and citizens of this world, we are called to exercise political responsibility to elect leaders who will defend life, and to sustain those leaders on the right path. We therefore teach and mobilize voters to make a difference in the voting booth. Networking Leaders
Priests for Life occupies a strategic place of unity in the pro-life movement. We foster relations between leaders, groups, and ministries. We facilitate strategic planning sessions on every level, as well as leadership retreats and seminars. Priests for Life coordinates the quarterly meetings of national pro-life leaders in the United States and periodic strategy summits whereby national pro-life leaders come together at our headquarters for several days.
