“How are LGBT people supposed to feel welcome in the Catholic Church when church officials will not allow them to speak?” asked Francis DeBernardo, executive director at New Ways Ministry, one of the organizers of the workshop.
The Tianjin Diocesan Social Service Center helped line up 60 volunteers to assist the government's rescue and relief work. Volunteers donated drinking water, clothes and other supplies to hospitals and temporary settlements for evacuees.
Sue Harvath, who has counseled post-abortive women, says it shouldn't matter whether Planned Parenthood is making money from the sale of fetal body parts because even the act of obtaining the body parts is manipulative and flat wrong.