We wish our readers a blessed Eastertide in this joyous season of the Resurrection. We also share the Carolina Family Coalition’s recent activities and how your support continues to help us build a culture of life and family in the Carolinas.
Defending Life
Vigilia de los Dos Corazones
Thanks to your support, the Vigil of the Two Hearts pro-life devotion was held at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick on March 6 to pray for an end to abortion, strength for families and for the country’s conversion back to God. After skipping April due to Holy Week, our next vigil is tomorrow Friday May 1 beginning with 8:00 p.m. First Friday Mass followed by Nocturnal Adoration. Will you join us in adopting an hour?
Fr. Joshua Voitus offers the March 6 Vigil of the Two Hearts Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick
Changing Hearts Locally
Thanks to your generosity, on Tuesday March 24, our pro-life program, Red de Acción Pro-Vida de Carolina (C-PLAN), organized its annual Western NC Respect Life Mass and Rosary Vigil at Immaculate Conception Church in Hendersonville. Around 100 people attended the Mass, offered by Immaculate Conception parochial vicar Fr. David O’Connor, who preached a sobering yet inspiring pro-life homily. Afterwards many stayed to pray a Rosary for an end to abortion.
In March and April, C-PLAN also hosted regional Respect Life meetings in the Triad (March 10) and in Western NC (April 21) areas to discuss and coordinate pro-life activities. The next C-PLAN regional Respect Life meeting will be in Charlotte on Tuesday May 12, 12 noon. For more details, please contact us.
Fr. David O’Connor, offers the Respect Life Mass on March 24 at Immaculate Conception Church in Hendersonville
Supporting Catholic Healthcare Workers & Bioethics
With your support, Carolina Family Coalition remained engaged in Catholic healthcare issues by co-sponsoring the annual Converging Roads Catholic healthcare conference on March 21 in Charlotte.
Principally sponsored by the St. John Paul II Foundation, el Diócesis de Charlotte, y Colegio de la Abadía de Belmont, the event attracted over 70 attendees and featured several speakers discussing the theme, Medicine and the Dignified Mission to Heal.
After our February announcement that we had spun-off Catholic Health Professionals of Charlotte (to join the Catholic Medical Association), and established a new program in its place, Carolina Bioethics Forum, the conference co-sponsorship was part of our continued mission to stay engaged in areas where healthcare and the dignity of human life intersect.
A full house of Catholic healthcare workers learn about the dignified mission to heal at the 2026 Converging Roads conference
SAVE THE DATE: June 18, 7pm – Protecting Our Daughters Against Gender Ideology
This June, thanks to the help of our supporters, we are planning an important presentation to help parents protect their children from gender ideology. The event, Protecting Our Daughters, will feature Mary Summa, J.D., General Counsel with the North Carolina Values Coalition who will brief parents on gender ideology in the public schools and how to stand up to it – all to protect our daughters, and children in general, from this evil.
This is part of NC Values’ campaign to have North Carolina laws protect girls from males in their school bathrooms and gym locker rooms. The talk is tentatively set for Thursday evening June 18, 7:00 p.m. at Saint Mark Church in Huntersville. Stay tuned for more details – like our February talk on the dangers of “brain death” and organ transplants, this is another event you won’t want to miss!
Signs of Hope
While our June event intends to help parents protect their children from falling victim to gender ideology, there remains the problem of kids who have already been harmed this evil practice and need justice. Fortunately, the local case of Prisha Mosely offers that possibility. Prisha underwent so-called gender transition surgery, regretted it, and has now been suing her doctors for malpractice. The case could set an important legal precedent for justice for victims in similar situations. Thankfully, after several setbacks, on April 13, a NC appeals court agreed to hear Prisha’s case.
On the pro-life front, a few weeks ago, the South Carolina Medical Senate Committee advanced a bill that would replace its six-week pro-life “heartbeat” law, with an even stronger law which would only permit abortions for medical emergencies (no rape or incest exceptions). Although it’s unclear whether it will be approved this year, it offers hope that efforts to protect the unborn have not stalled after the initial wave of pro-life laws following the 2022 dobbs case which overturned Roe contra Wade.
In North Carolina, legislators who are defending the state’s pro-life law restricting access to the abortion drug mifepristone, are asking a federal judge to reopen a court case in light of last summer’s U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision which allowed West Virginia to regulate and limit access to mifepristone. Should this occur and succeed it would make it more difficult to distribute the abortion pill in North Carolina and help protect more unborn lives (and a mother’s health). Something to pray for as we approach the four-year anniversary of the dobbs decision this June.
We wish our readers a blessed Eastertide.
