Day for Life is the day in the Church’s calendar set aside for raising awareness of the meaning and value of human life at every stage and in every condition – from conception to natural death.
The theme is ‘Listen to Her’ and focuses on post-abortion trauma and the impact of abortion primarily on women, but also men and others.
Pope Francis’s prayers are particularly for expectant mothers and their families, through the intercession of Mary, Mother of God.
Pope Francis reminds us that, “to defend life is not an ideology for the Church. It is a reality; a human reality that involves all Christians, precisely because they are Christian and because they are human.”