Orlando, Fla. — “We are pro-woman and we are pro-baby. And we must take care of both of them.” Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York pays tribute to Mother Mary Agnes Donovan and the Sisters of Life while not so subtly reminding those in the audience that the pro-life movement requires love above all. His remarks were part of an introductory video for the Knights of Columbus Gaudium et Spes Award (“Joy and Hope,” borrowing a title of an encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II).
For Mother Agnes, the founder of the Sisters of Life, the honor was all the more humbling because the late Cardinal John O’Connor received it in 1994, not long after the first honoree, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The award was no small effort to emphasize the charism of the Sisters of Life, founded three decades ago, and the need for the pro-life movement to radiate it.
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