The message of the pro-life movement, Bishop Loverde said, will get lost if delivered in a busy, noisy and violent way.
Positive language opens eyes more than negative rhetoric.
The hiking trail, which stretches for more than 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine, goes across the property of the Atonement Friars in New York. The meeting was about the park service's efforts to take about 20 acres of the friars' property by the power of eminent domain to increase protection for the trail area. Father Arthur M. Johnson, the friars' minister general, said that, pending efforts to work out a solution, the park service would suspend its earlier move to have the Justice Department pursue the case legally. Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, executive director of the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, Calif., and theology professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, spoke Aug. 3 at Sacred Heart School of Theology in Franklin. The three spoke Aug. 9 at a press conference at the National Press Club sponsored by the American Life League.