“Catholics must be committed to the defense of life in all its stages and every condition” (St. John Paul II, 1995).


Brother Knights,
 

As Knights of Columbus, we defend the dignity of each human being at every stage of life.  We work together to build a culture of life and a civilization of love.  Your council should stand ready to assist a pregnant woman in need, care for the elderly, aid the handicapped, empower those with special needs to realize their full potential and bring attention to the injustices of abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, and assisted suicide.

 While the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, marked the end of Roe v. Wade, it was not the end of abortion in the United States, and that is especially true in New Jersey.  It is also not the end of the pro-life movement’s work or the Knight’s in defending life.

 Through the Aid and Support After Pregnancy (ASAP) program, for every $500 a council donates to a qualifying pregnancy resource center or maternity home (up to $2,000), the Supreme Council will donate an additional $100.  That is an excellent return on your investment.  Please use this program to support your local pregnancy center or maternity home.  Roses for Life and the Baby Bottle Boomerang are excellent programs to raise funds for these organizations.  

 In addition to the respect life programs, councils can support the intellectually disabled, Special Olympics, persecuted Christians, and Deborah Hospital.  

 Review the recommended Life Programs that follow to find out what your council can do. These are suggested programs from the Supreme Council and our State Council, and councils can create their Life Programs.  Supreme has four Featured Life Programs.  If a council completes any of these programs, it will count as two programs toward the four Life Program goals for a council. 

 As State Deputy Ray Sands's motto says, do everything Pro Fide Et Utilitate Hominum (For the Faith and Benefit of All).

 

 

John Carlucci
 Life Programs Director
 NJ State Council K of C
 (856) 443-7546
[email protected]
 Pro Fide Et Utilitate Hominum (For the Faith and Benefit of All)

 

State Council Life Programs:

  

Section 8.0	Life  Programs	2023-2024 Chairman	Email
	ADOPTION AS AN OPTION	JOHN CARLUCCI, FDD	[email protected]
	BABY BOTTLE BOOMERANG	ALBERT B. NORMANDIA	[email protected]
	DEBORAH HOSPITAL SUPPORT	RICHARD BROWN	[email protected]
	DIAPERS FOR BABIES	MICHAEL W. WALTER, FDD	[email protected]
	DRIVE FOR PERSONS            WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES	GARY SEALS, FDD	[email protected]
	FORTY DAYS FOR LIFE	MARK KIERNAN, PGK	[email protected]
	HOMES FOR MOTHERS	JOHN CARLUCCI, FDD	[email protected]
	MARCH FOR LIFE	ROB FINI	[email protected]
	MASS FOR PEOPLE           WITH SPECIAL NEEDS	GARY SEALS, FDD	[email protected]
	NOVENA FOR LIFE	PETER KUEKEN, Jr. FDD	[email protected]
	PERSECUTED CHRISTIAN'S SUPPORT	PETER WALENTOWICZ, FDD	[email protected]
	PREGNANCY CENTER SUPPORT/ASAP	DAVID GOELLER, DD	[email protected]
	ROSES FOR LIFE	JAMES KUKURA, FDD	[email protected]
	SILVER ROSE	MICHAEL CHOMA, FDD	[email protected]
	SPECIAL OLYMPICS	WILLIAM J ZIKA	[email protected]
	ULTRASOUND INITIATIVE	STANLEY HUBBARD	[email protected]
	WINGS FOR LIFE/ACE AWARDS	STEVEN RICHARDSON, FM	[email protected]

Additional Online Resources
 

• K of C Supreme, Culture of Life
• USCCB
• New Jersey Right to Life
• Faith In Action:  LINK
• Faith In Action Guidebook:  LINK
• Program Report Form (10784):  LINK
• Council Life Programs Survey Form. LINK
• Other forms:  LINK

“Only with prayer—prayer that storms the heavens for justice and mercy, prayer that cleanses our hearts and souls—will the culture of death that surrounds us today be replaced with a culture of life."
—U.S. Catholic Bishops


Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities
Pro-Life Prayer
Heavenly Father, source of all life, who desires not the death of Your children, but wishes that they may grow into the fulfillment of the personhood that You placed in them from the moment of conception. Shower Your blessings upon the unborn, protect them from all evil and bring them forth into the world to walk in Your ways. 
Bestow Your particular love upon those privileged by motherhood that they may be supported at this most special time in their lives. Turn the hearts of the fathers toward You that they too may be filled with abundant grace. 
I offer You my special prayer for all Your children, for my life itself, for all the blessings You have bestowed on me, and ask finally to be brought into Your presence when You see fit to end my earthly sojourn. Amen. 
“I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him”
 (Dt. 30:19-20).


Life Prayer
Lord, we rejoice in Your commands!
 You give us the opportunity to freely choose You and serve You!
 Your gift of freedom puts our destiny in our own hands.
Lord, to choose life is to choose blessing,
 And to choose death is to choose curses.
 We have the power to choose either one,
 But not the power to change the consequences.
You give us the command
 To freely love the children entrusted to our care
 And to respect their right to life.
You warn us that to choose abortion
 Means to bring devastation not only on them,
 But on us.
Your command to choose life
 Is a choice of You, Your covenant,
 The way of Your commands, Your love, Your peace
 And Your gift of salvation and life eternal.
Lord, we choose life today
 And we pray that all will do so!
Lord, give us individuals and families who choose life!
 Give us a nation that chooses life!
 Give us a world that chooses life!
We pray through the One who isv The Way, the Truth and the Life,
 The Resurrection and the Life,
 The Bread of Life,
 The Author of Life and the Conqueror of Death,
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life