January affords several opportunities for making statements about our faith. As this is Pro-Life Month, we focus on the rights of all people to a life with dignity and respect from conception to natural death. This covers a wide range of issues over the protection of life, health care, education, immigration, basic civil rights, equal justice before the law, housing, employment, and a host of other issues. Let us all be attentive to the short-comings in our own lives that make us silent – or maybe not so silent – agents of injustice and inequality instead of advocates for the rights of all. Certainly responding to Deacon Rich’s appeal for baby bottles is one way we can help. Read more.