Bishop Joseph Strickland Helps Launch “Pro-Life University” to Train Pro-Life Americans
National | Steven Ertelt | Jan 19, 2024 | 4:12PM | Washington, DC
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the abortion issue is receiving more attention than ever before, and rightly so. But this increased attention doesn’t mean people are getting to the truth about abortion. So many don’t really know what happens to a baby in an abortion, nor do they realize the harm abortion brings to mothers, fathers, extended families and in fact our whole society.
Even people of fervent faith might be hard-pressed to explain why they are so opposed to abortion.
Pro-life people long ago dismissed the Fake News media and our campuses, which are supposed to be places to explore ideas with an open mind, have become pro-abortion indoctrination camps.
To help begin to overcome all this distortion and ignorance, Priests for Life, Catholic Online and Bishop Joseph Strickland have announced the launch of Pro-life University, a free online school that will offer classes in every aspect of the pro-life movement: Science, medicine, law, religion, public relations, politics, and the process of healing the wounds that follow abortion.
Bishop Strickland, Deacon Keith Fournier, editor-in-chief of Catholic Online, and I have decided to create this school to prepare pro-life advocates to be able to discuss the issues knowledgeably and persuasively, in the contentious years ahead.
The death of Roe created battles new battles in all 50 states, Deacon Keith noted.
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“We need to equip people in every state,” he said. “We want to equip people to go into the courts, into the culture, into the academy, wherever they are.”
Deacon Keith said the university will be modeled after his Catholic Online School that offers a wide variety of courses in the Catholic faith to more than 1 million students in 193 countries. Students can log in whenever they have the time and choose from hundreds of course offerings.
Once the website for the university is unveiled, interested people will be able to enroll online.
Bishop Strickland said he feels “obligated” to be part of this first-of-its kind university.
“It’s an excellent concept,” the bishop said, “bringing together all the disciplines, all the voices within the pro-life movement. A university for the sanctity of life is a concept for now and for the future, a place people can go to get every answer they need.”
The goal in establishing such a learning program, the bishop said, is to “eliminate abortion from our vocabulary and from the human experience.”
Information on faculty members and course offerings will be announced in the coming weeks.
Bishop Strickland, Deacon Keith and I announced the creation of Pro-life University at the National Prayer Service in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, and the announcement was met with great enthusiasm. That reaction reinforced what we already knew, that people are hungry for comprehensive, substantive information on abortion and how we can abolish it once and for all.
LifeNews.com Note: Frank Pavone is the national director for Priests for Life.
