From Fr. Louie in Zambia

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate are at the service of the Gospel and preach the Good News in a variety of ways. Along with thousands of other people, Fr. Dwight is responding to the call to proclaim the holiness of human life beginning in the womb and so his “preaching” is going to be done with his feet. His walk across the country is a strong statement about our conviction that human life begins at conception and that our society must work to preserve, protect and nourish life from that moment and all the way through until natural death. The dedication of time, energy and the wear and tear on his feet and those thousands of others doing the same around the U.S. and Canada is a sacrifice given freely and with love so that others might have life and have it in abundance. While the focus of this Crossroads walk is to call the attention of our society to the terrible evil of abortion, we always connect that evil to other attacks against human life. If as a society we do not pay attention to life in its beginning, at its very root when it is so vulnerable and fragile, we will never have a basis from which to defend it in other instances, when in other ways the dignity of the human person is violated. I am grateful to Fr. Dwight for his commitment to give so much time and energy to shout out loudly, “Defend life!”