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For MARCH 2008: Talking Points
What if neither candidate is good enough?
by Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
2007 - 2008 Fraternal Year End Progress Report
Supreme Knight's letter to Knights For Life  "for a job very well done...."  
"in promoting the Day of the Unborn Child throughout Louisiana."

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From:
Ed Jeanfreau, FDD
Louisiana Chairman
Knights For Life

To: All Worthy Grand Knights,
District Deputies,
Area Coordinators, Pro-Life
Chairmen/Couples, and all
Brother Knights.
About Knights For Life

Formed in Louisiana in June of 2003, Knights For Life was created
to coordinate Pro-Life information, for Pro-Life education, and to
provide guidance to Council Pro-Life Chairmen/Couples. All Brother
Knights who are interested in taking a more active role in Pro-Life
activities are invited to join. All wives are invited to participate.

Our first objective is getting a solid and consistent Pro-Life
message delivered at EVERY monthly Council meeting.
If that were to happen regularly across the Order, THINGS
WOULD CHANGE!

We have Talking Points available each month for Council Pro-Life
Chairman to use. They are on-line or you can join the E-Mail list for
convenience. We also want to encourage all GK's to make sure your
Council has a Pro-Life Chairman, that he has time to address each
monthly meeting, and that he avails the Council of the many

With an efficiently organized body of Knights For Life
we can be a strong force in service to the Order, for
teaching the truth that life, and personhood, begins
at conception. We can help reeducate our families
and ourselves, about the dignity of the unborn and
about our obligation to have a properly formed--
and informed--Christian conscience.

Together, we can work, teach, live, and vote to rebuild
a new Culture of Life. Please feel free to contact me
at the info below if you are interested in being a part
of Knights For Life.

Vivat Jesu,

Ed Jeanfreau, FDD
State Chairman
Knights For Life
PO Box 832
Abita Springs, LA 70420
985-893-5835
Study of a Womb, c. 1489
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Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.




 

Supreme Court Decision
'a Major Milestone'

4/18/2007

“Today’s Supreme Court decision in
Gonzales v. Carhart is a major milestone
in the battle to end the destruction of
innocent human life in America,”
Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson
said April 18.

“Until today, the abortion license in the
United States has been virtually
unlimited. Finally, after nearly a decade
of court battles, the way has been cleared
to implement the bipartisan judgment of
Congress that partial birth abortion is
brutal and inhumane, and must be prohibited.”

“In upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act,” Anderson said, “the
court reasserts an important and usually forgotten part of its 1992
decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. ‘A central premise’ of that
case, the court said, is ‘that the government has a legitimate, substantial
interest in preserving and promoting fetal life.’ In highlighting that position,
I believe the court has laid the groundwork for a more searching re-examination
of the crumbling foundation on which Roe v. Wade was built.”

“We also strongly agree with Justice Thomas, who wrote a short, separate
concurring opinion reiterating his view ‘that the Court’s abortion jurisprudence,
including Casey and Roe v. Wade, has no basis in the Constitution.’
He is absolutely right, and we will not rest until the day on which the right to
life is recognized as the most fundamental right of all,” Anderson concluded.

The Knights of Columbus is the world’s largest Catholic lay organization,
with more than 1.7 million members worldwide. Knights of Columbus
are involved in a wide variety of pro-life activities at the local, state, national
and international levels, including support for adoption programs and for
homes that care for women in crisis pregnancies who have elected to have
their children.

The Order also provides major financial support for the Secretariat for
Pro-Life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as well
as for Canada’s Catholic Organization for Life and Family.


Source: http://www.kofc.org/news/releases/detail.cfm?id=365119


 

Purpose and Objectives of
Knights For Life


Pope John Paul II taught us: “Abortion and euthanasia are crimes
which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation
in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear
obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. It is therefore
never licit to obey them, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in
favor of such law, or vote for it.”(1) Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson
has stated, “Pope John Paul II has asked Catholics to begin a `Great
Campaign for Life.' This is a request the Knights of Columbus is taking
very seriously.”(2) In another document Anderson comments on Roe:
”It is a decision that ignores the truth: The truth about unborn
children, about women, and most of all, about human life and
human nature itself. Even Norma McCorvey - the `Roe' of Roe v. Wade -
now rejects the decision and the culture of abortion on demand that it
established.”(3)

We as Knights For Life are committed to education about the sanctity
of Life, especially the unborn-and communication of these truths to
our Brothers and our families.  United, we will work towards greater
Catholic civic responsibility in order to build a new Culture of Life.

Being honest about the root causes of this tragic situation we are in is
critical if we hope to affect a substantial change. Prior to 2004, Catholics
as a voting block voted for the pro-abortion candidate in the last several
Presidential elections. This fact repeats itself endlessly in State and
Congressional elections. The sad reality is that the duration of the abortion
holocaust is prolonged by Catholics who vote for pro-abortion candidates.
This can only end with a new generation of Catholics fully educated on the
sanctity of Life before birth. Ignorance sustained by denial is crippling this
nations response to the holocaust of abortion. We must educate ourselves
about WHY we are obligated to always vote for the most Pro-Life candidate,
and what it means to vote with a properly formed and informed Christian
conscience.

The first way we can bring about real change is at the monthly Council
meeting. We have 290 Councils with 35,000+ members in the Louisiana
jurisdiction. Every month is an opportunity for the Pro-Life Council
Chairman to spend just FIVE minutes presenting educational facts about
the unborn and/or discussing important pro-life news. Each month we have
fully prepared Talking Points available for Council Pro-Life Chairman to
use at their meetings. They are on-line and we also have an E-Mail list for
convenience.

Part of our problem stems from the truism “out of sight-out of mind”. Many
Catholics are unaware of the facts about the life of the unborn person and
so each month is a new opportunity to teach. Over time this can have a
tremendous impact. On a national level with 1.7 million members, the
Order has the capacity to lead to a new Culture of Life. Politics alone has
not succeeded. Comprehensive education is The Missing Key of the

We can no longer blindly hope that Catholics will make voting pro-life a
priority in every election if they are not first taught the reasons why they
should. Part of our larger objective is to have enough Knights for Life
Area Coordinators to visit every Council in the state once or twice a year
to make a more complete presentation on the matter and to coordinate
efforts with the Council Pro-Life Chairmen in his area. There are many
valuable Pro-Life resources available from Supreme at no charge that
can be very helpful. We also have a resource guide for all Councils.
For about $200, a Council can have a great pro-life library. The materials
can be lent out and used in groups. Coupled with the substantial resources
available through the KFL web site,  there is no reason why any Knight's
family should be left behind. Several other plans are in the works and will
be detailed at the web site.  All of this will make the great pro-life work
already being done throughout the Order that much more effective.

The defense and promotion of Life is not the ministry of a few but the
responsibility of all. This task is not too large when we involve our wives
and children. We need everyone united and working together, including
squires.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, parents are the first and primary
teachers of the Faith for their children. We now have age appropriate,
sanctity of life lesson plans on-line for pre-K through 12th grade, so that
our families can learn about God's great gift of Life together.

Let us always pray to Our Lady who gave to us the Word made Flesh,
that we will see and love in the unborn of today what she saw and loved
in her Unborn Son-a Child, made in the image and likeness of God.

Vivat Jesu,

Kevin Jeanfreau, State Director
Knights For Life
Kevin@CpForLife.org


(1) The Gospel of Life, no. 73
(2) Knightline: July 5, 2003
(3) Knightline: February 5, 2004


"Our main objective is getting a solid and consistent Pro-Life
message delivered at EVERY monthly Council meeting. If that were
to happen regularly across the Order, THINGS WOULD CHANGE!"

 

2007 - 2008 Fraternal Year End Progress Report
Open letter of thanks to all Brother Knights


March 20, 2008

To all Worthy State Officers, GKs, DDs, ACs, and all Brother Knights:

This is an update on Knights For Life activity since being founded in April 2004 with
approval of then State Deputy Steve Thomas by then State Pro-Life Chairman Ed Jeanfreau.

These results could be duplicated by any State Council and repeated across the
country with a little effort.

Our mission is simple: Find a way to help Crisis Pregnancy Centers save more unborn babies.
Ultrasound machines have become the greatest tool in saving babies but they are expensive
and most CPCs don't have the funds.

FUNDRAISING: Using baby bottles has been done for years across the country.  We have a
print out called the ABCs of baby bottle fundraising at our website www.KnightsForLife.org
that can help direct any group to success. Please note this project can be successful with as
few as 3 dedicated people who will cooperate with a CPC. All checks are made out to the
individual CPC, they are all 501(c)3 tax-exempt charitable organizations.  

From April 2004 to March 2008 Knights For Life, with the cooperation of over 25
Councils and the direct assistance of several dozen brother Knights helped raise
$495,000; including six ultrasound machines for seven Crisis Pregnancy Centers.

ACCESS Pregnancy and Referral Centers (ACCESS) operated by Catholic Charities,
Archdiocese of New Orleans has received over $140,000 from baby bottle fundraising,
enabling them to secure an 80% grant from Focus on the Family for three Ultrasound
machines. In spring 2007 the third machine was installed at their third facility and they
are now saving more babies than ever before. ACCESS is planning to open a fourth Center
in New Orleans. Most Centers also offer STD testing, which is at epidemic levels in young
people today.

Northlake Crisis Pregnancy Center in Covington was the first Center we helped with fundraisers
that became a limited medical facility. This is a requirement to purchase and operate the machine.
As a result of our baby bottle fundraising a very generous person made a $50,000 donation
enabling Northlake to purchase a state of the art GE 4D Ultrasound machine, the same model
used in National Geographics' documentary Life in the Womb.

Restoration PRC in Hammond and Crisis Pregnancy Help Center in Slidell both
received donations the following year from the same donor to Northlake for
renovations and ultrasound machines. KC Councils in Hammond and Slidell help
support these two Centers.

Desormeaux Foundation in Lafayette, LA has had successful baby bottle fundraising in several
parishes to help support the WOMAN'S CENTER in Lafayette.

We want to note that this has been accomplished at no cost to the State Council.

This would not have been possible without the 100% support of our Pastors and the generous
support of parishioners. Thanks to the Knights of Columbus Councils and brother Knights who
helped distribute and collect the bottles.

Vivat Jesu!

Ed Jeanfreau, PGK, PFN, FDD, P P/L State Chair
State Chairman, Knights For Life
985-893-5835
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"Evil flourishes when it is hidden; injustice festers when the victim is unseen.

Exposing evil causes it to collapse under its own weight, as it confronts the
light of human conscience. Overcoming injustice does not require that
everyone believe it is injustice. There is, rather, a critical mass at some
point in the spectrum, when “enough” people are so convinced. The good
news is that those people already have the conscience to reject the evil.
The problem is that the evil hasn't been sufficiently exposed for them to see it. "

-- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director Priests for Life

 


Talking Points  Program
for Council Pro-Life Chairman
 & Area Coordinators

Based on the monthly Council meetings, Knights for Life will have a
Program Cycle of specific monthly points of educational information to impart.

The Program Cycle will be based on the topics that are specific to
certain months. For months that are not specific to a particular pro-life
subject, we will have specific Life before Birth information.

In the 2003 SUPREME KNIGHT’S REPORT, Carl Anderson stated:
"Every council must have an active and dedicated pro-life chaircouple"
And so our first goal is to provide assistance with monthly talking points
along with this website that will help enable the Chairman to be active
and to activate his Council.

Our second objective is for each Council to be visited twice per year
by the KFL area coordinator to give 15-minute presentations. The Council
pro-life chairman will then have 10 monthly Council presentations to make.

Below are the downloads for the monthly talking points.

Right Click on the Month and select  "Save target As" Then save document
to your computer. If you have any problems please E-mail me.  If you have
any ideas or suggestions, please let us know. If you would like to have the
Talking Points delivered to your E-Mail each month, please let me know

NOTE: Files in pdf require the Free adobe reader here.

2008

What if neither candidate is good enough?
by Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
JAN-FEB
not sent


 2007
Pro-Life movie "Bella" Continues Strong
 Performance at Theaters


Pope: "The fundamental human right, the presupposition
 of every other right, is the right to life itself"



Vatican: Abortion in Rape Cases is
"Violence Answered with Further Violence,
Murder with Murder"

Supreme Court on PBA Ban

Abortion and the politics of ultrasound  
"Non-viable" Baby Girl Survives Birth at 21 Weeks, Weighing Under 10oz
Martial Arts and Film Legend Chuck Norris Now Fights Abortion
When Does Life Begin? Columbia Magazine 2007

 2006


A Pro-Life message for Advent
A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum
For High School College and Adult Study
Reaping the whirlwind of abortion
Bishop Doran's Column.  Rockford, IL.
Rape Victim: My Child "No Different Than a Child Not Conceived in Rape"
Abortion is a Crime that Must be Punished Says Vatican
Judie Brown: 'Most Important' Pro-Life Bill Could End Abortion If Passed
Warren Buffett Gives until it Hurts (Pro-Abortion Philanthropy)
Pope Benedict Says Teach Youth the Holiness of Marriage, Value of Human Life
Says embryos in earliest stages of life are fully human
Boycott of Johnson & Johnson, longtime funder of Planned Parenthood
Braver new world: Is Christianity in America a sun rising or setting?
A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum
A BRIEF SURVEY OF US ABORTION LAW BEFORE THE 1973 DECISION
Roe v Wade January 22, 1973 & THE ABORTED STATES OF AMERICA


2005

Due to Hurricane Katrina we were unable to produce Talking Points for
Sept. through Dec.

AUGUST - Pro-Life Prayer & Spiritual Adoption continues
JULY - Pro-life Prayer & Spiritual Adoption
JUNE - Supreme Knight Welcomes Veto Threat on Stem-Cell Bill
May - Stem Cell Research
April - Human cloning in the Louisiana legislature SPRING 2005
February - - Advance note for Feast of the Annunciation,  Masses to end abortion
January - How Roe v Wade can end in 2005

2004

October - Election Day and Christian Responsibility
September - Pro-Life Yard Sign Handout
August - Louisiana Marriage Amendment
July - YARD SIGN PROJECT - Part II
June -  VOTE PRO-LIFE YARD SIGN PROJECT
May -  Partial Birth Abortion - Court Case
April - Election Day and Christian Responsibility
March - Supreme Knight Anderson's statement.
  Pro-Life Education: It is up to the parents to teach!
February - Advance note for Feast of the Annunciation,
  Masses to end abortion
January - Commemoration of Anniversary of Roe v Wade

2003
December - The unborn Savior of the World
November - The Life of Terri Schiavo, PBA Ban, and the
  power of communication.
October - Church appointed Pro-Life Month
September - Comparison of 9-11 to a day of abortion in America

Knights for Life Area Coordinator Talking Points--FIRST VISIT





 

Free Pro-Life News Sources

Priests for Life - Fr. Pavone's free biweekly newsletter via e-mail

Lifesite Daily News - Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost

http://www.lifenews.com - Daily or Weekly news digests delivered to your e-mail





Pro-Life Materials & Resources

Victory Won - manufactured our Vote Pro-Life Yard Signs and has a huge
inventory of Pro-Life items from books and videos to fetal models.

Heritage House - Home of the Precious Feet pins also has a huge inventory of
Pro-Life items from books and videos to fetal models. Also has many educational
resources for Pregnancy Help and related.

Life Cycle Books - Serving the Pro-Life community with educational materials
since 1973.


Culture of Life
The Protection Of Human Life
The Knights of Columbus is unambiguously and proudly pro-life. In accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church, the Order defends human life from the moment of conception until natural death. Building a new Culture of Life where every human life is welcomed, respected and protected by law is one of the highest priorities of the Order.
--From Supreme Web site



 
KCLS: KofC Leadership Seminar - Pro-Life presentation and packet.

On Saturday and Sunday July 2 and 3, 2005 KFL made a PowerPoint presentation
on Pro-Life activities for Councils. Also included in the KCLS packets the State
Council distributed to each Council that attended were several Pro-Life documents
with outlines of activities that Councils are invited to participate in. The documents
are listed below for downloading. This may also be used in conjunction with Grand
Knights Day.


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