St. Elizabeth members donate to Baby Bottle fund

This year parishioners of St. Elizabeth in Elizabethton donated $4,000, an all-time high, to the Baby Bottle program that benefits Abortion Alternatives and Women’s Center/TLC in Elizabethton. That amount brings the total to more than $22,000 for the nine years that St. Elizabeth has participated in the program. Baby bottles …

Baby bottles prove to be a valuable tool in promoting life

‘Crazy fun’ fundraiser at St. Mary in Johnson City benefits Catholic Charities’ pregnancy help centers                          By Emily Booker What better way to promote life than through a fundraiser using baby bottles during Respect Life Month? And who better to assist in the fundraiser than Catholic Charities of East Tennessee? The …

Chet McDoniel wows Chattanoogans for Life with faith story

“I believe that each and every life is not perfect. Every person has something they wish was different. But every life is worth it. Every life is worth fighting for. Every life is worth living.” — Chet McDoniel By Paul Schulz On Jan. 5, 1980, Chet McDoniel emerged from his …

Rosary For Life attracts parishioners from across diocese

What looked to be a soggy Rosary For Life instead became a powerful witness for God and the sanctity of life Jan. 11 as a persistent downpour dried up when Cardinal Justin Rigali began prayer in front of Planned Parenthood’s East Knoxville clinic. Some 250 people from across the Diocese …

Jury finds Kermit Gosnell, abortion clinic operator, guilty of murder

PHILADELPHIA——Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell on May 13 was convicted on three of the four first degree murder charges for killing babies who had been born alive. Gosnell, 72, could face the death penalty for the murder charges. The jury will hear arguments for and against a death sentence a week …

Knoxville abortion clinic closes doors, cites new state law

Pro-life advocates credit legislation, 38 years of prayers, vigils for ‘moment of grace’ When Lisa Morris saw a moving van outside a Knoxville abortion clinic, signaling the facility’s closure after nearly four full decades in business, she called it “almost a surreal moment.” “I just stopped. I pulled in and …