ARDEN — Respect Life parish coordinators and other advocates are welcome to attend the Diocese of Charlotte’s annual Respect Life Conference, this year being held Saturday, Sept. 16, at St. Barnabas Church in Arden.
The conference will include a variety of workshops and speakers, including keynote speaker Dr. John S. Grabowski, associate professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America and theological advisor to the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family and Youth.
Grabowski has written extensively on the areas of moral theology, marriage, sexuality and bioethics, and he wrote the foreword to the 1997 English edition of St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.” He will speak on “Humanae Vitae 50 Years Later: Prophecy and Prescription for our Culture.”
Go to www.ccdoc.org/respectlife for details or email Jessica Grabowski at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
CHARLOTTE — Join Catholics across Charlotte for Mass and overnight Eucharistic Adoration every first Friday-Saturday at St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte to pray for the strengthening and healing of marriages and families, the conversion of our nation, and to offer reparation for the sins of mankind through prayer and penance.
Trying in the First Friday and Saturday devotions of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts together with Mass and Adoration, the vigil will begin with Mass at 8 p.m. each first Friday, followed by Adoration and scheduled prayer, and conclude with 8 a.m. Mass each first Saturday, beginning Sept. 1-2 and Oct. 6-7.
The city-wide prayer effort is being organized by the Catholic Pro-Life Action Network (C-PLAN) and local parish Respect Life ministries. For details and to sign up for Adoration times, go to www.prolifecharlotte.org.