{"id":326804,"date":"2025-02-24T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326804"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:11:19","slug":"us-bishops-post-abortive-women-home-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/us-bishops-post-abortive-women-home-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bishops’ message to post-abortive women: ‘Come home to Jesus’ during Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities offered<\/a> a message specifically for women who have undergone abortions as Christians prepare for the season of Lent \u2014 the 40 days of fasting and prayer before Easter.<\/p>\n

Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, the bishop of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio, and chairman of the committee, used the U.S. bishop’s Lenten message<\/a> “to speak to all who carry the unbearable sadness and guilt of an abortion experience.”<\/p>\n

“Be assured that Jesus keeps on loving you, no matter what,” he said. “The blessed ashes distributed on our foreheads on Ash Wednesday remind us that we are all sinners; broken, imperfect, yet very precious in the eyes of God and so well loved by Him. The ashes are both a reminder of our need for repentance and the graces that flow from our Lord’s death and resurrection.”<\/p>\n

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