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U.S. bishops say life is their "pre-eminent issue." How about a little action?
By John M. Grondelski | December 5th 2023 12:56 PMIn a recent post here, I reminisced about the “Committee of Ten Million,” Gil Durand’s 1973 lay initiative to amass ten million petition signatures to be delivered publicly to Congress demanding a Human Life Amendment. Ten million signatures in 1973 would have been about five percent of the U.S. population,…
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A tribute to an early and ambitious pro-life Catholic, Mr. Gil Durand
By John M. Grondelski | November 28th 2023 12:33 PMAs we marked Thanksgiving last week, my memories reached back 50 years to Thanksgiving 1973. I remember the day well: sunny but chilly. The memory is an opportunity for me to salute a man I never met, Gil Durand. (I think it’s Durand. It might be Durant. He doesn’t come…
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