Diane Marcella – PCUC – New Castle

Upcoming Events & Activities

Diane Marcella — Thu, 02 May 2019 15:26:19 +0000

Upcoming Pro-life Events; Please Mark Your Calendar & Join us.

Light A Candle For Life

Friday, May 10th @ 7:30 pm Kennedy Square, New Castle

Lawrence County Fair
Mon., August 12- Sat., August 17
Need Volunteers to staff our booth.

Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Mary, Mother of Hope Parish Center
Need CHAIR AND VOLUNTEERS
to serve on the Committee.

LIFE CHAINS: Sunday, October 6, 2019
1:45 pm in New Castle, Ellwood City
and New Wilmington

Meeting – Monday, May 20th, 2019
The Crane Room, 11:00 am
Speaker to be announced.

People Concerned for the Unborn, New Castle announces two upcoming pro-life events.

Diane Marcella — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:32:47 +0000

FIRST EVENT:

The 45th Annual “MARCH FOR LIFE” will be held on Friday, JANUARY 19, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Every year this National Event draws more than 100,000 people from across the nation. The theme for the 2018 “March” is :“Love Saves Lives”.

The bus sponsored by the New Castle Chapter of People Concerned for the Unborn Child will depart from Lawrence Village Plaza/K-Mart, 2650 Ellwood Rd.,on Friday, January 19 at 4:45AM and will Return between 12:01-1:00AM Saturday. For Reservations, call Joanne Mellott (724-667-9510) or e-mail her at mellotts111@hotmail.com The bus fee for adults is $40.00 and for students is $25.00.

Below are quotes from the March for Life Website:
Vision: A world where every human life is valued and protected.

Mission: The mission of the March for Life is to provide all Americans with a place to testify to the beauty of life and the dignity of each human person. Both in January, on the anniversary of legalized abortion in the US, and throughout the year we bring together pro-life leaders and groups to organize, unite and strategize around a common message, and to communicate this message to the government, the media and the nation in a way that is powerful and life affirming.

History: January 22, 1973 is ingrained in the minds of pro-lifers because on that infamous historic day the Supreme Court invalidated 50 state laws and made abortion legal and available on demand throughout the United States in the now-infamous decisions in Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton.

original march for life with NellieThe March for Life in Washington, D.C., began as a small demonstration and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world. The peaceful demonstration that has followed on this somber anniversary every year since 1973 is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, legalized abortion on demand.

At the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, we mourned the death in 2012 of Nellie Gray, the founder of the March for Life and the “Joan of Arc” of the pro-life movement. In October 1973, months after the Roe and Doe decisions, a group of thirty pro-life leaders gathered in Nellie’s home in Washington, D.C. to discuss how to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Roe. There was a fear that January 22 would pass as any other day rather than allow for a moment to reflect upon how legalized abortion had hurt women and taken babies’ lives over the course of the year. That was the day that plans for the first March for Life began.

SECOND EVENT:

ABOVE: At every “Light A Candle for Life” there is a group of students who sing “I’m Glad that God Made Me”, by local composer Reatha Gibbs. Reatha is the secretary at Prevailing Word World Outreach Center. That’s her on the right. She attends every pro-life event and is always among the last to leave because she wants to help with the final details, like helping us load our cars. Reatha is a kind, thoughtful and very smart woman with many talents, including a high expertise with a computer!

The 32nd annual “LIGHT A CANDLE FOR LIFE” Prayer Vigil of the New Castle Chapter of People Concerned for the Unborn Child, will be held on Sunday, JANUARY 21, 2018 at Kennedy Square (The Diamond) in New Castle. Beginning at 6pm, every person will pick up a luminary kit which contains dry sand, 10 white lunch bags with names (for babies who never got a name, because they were never born) printed by students at the New Castle Christian Academy and St. Vitus School.

Tables will be set up on the sidewalks at the Diamond so that those attending can prepare the one thousand luminary candles which they will place and light on the plastic covering the ground. We will kneel and pray in memory of the 61MILLION+ American baby boys and girls who have died by abortion and for their mothers, who have been forever harmed by their abortion since the Supreme Court abortion decisions of Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton on January 22, 1973.

The agenda for the evening is as follows: 6:00PM at the Diamond, Comments by Claudia McConnell, Co-Chair, PCUC. The Opening Prayer will be led by Rev. David Bell, Pastor, First United Brethren Church; “God Bless America” will be sung by students of St.Vitus School, New Castle Christian Academy and the American Heritage Girls. This will be followed by the lighting of the luminaries. At 7:00PM a Prayer Service will be held inside at St. Mary’s Church Parish Center, one block north of Kennedy Square. Comments will be made by Sue Deasey, Co-Chair, PCUC. The main Speaker will be Sarah Bowen, Executive Director, Alpha Omega Centers followed by the Benediction by Rev. Zachary Galiyas, Parochial Vicar, Catholic Community of New Castle.

Those attending are encouraged to bring new baby Items to be donated this year to the Alpha Omega Centers

Schedule “Voiceless” Movie

Diane Marcella — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:15:55 +0000

“Voiceless” is a pro-life movie which challenges clergy and lay people to speak for and act in defense of God’s gift of human life from conception to natural death. “Voiceless” is about a newly recruited church Outreach Minister who realizes that across from the church is an abortion mill. He is convicted by God to put his faith into action and reach out to those being influenced by the clinic. The film was created by The Dove Foundation and will awaken the hearts of every Christian.

THOU SHALL NOT KILL. ABORTION KILLS.

Who are the “Voiceless”? They are little unborn babies and those who refuse to speak for them. Abortion kills wee little unborn babies, each with it’s own DNA . BUT…we are silent, WHY? Nearly 3,000* babies die every day in the United States, the majority in Planned Parenthood abortion mills.

PCUC, New Castle Chapter has received a license from The Dove Foundation which expires in May of 2018.

The movie is rated PG-13. Runtime is 1 hour, 42 minutes. Below is a link to the trailer of the movie.

April 30, 2017 Newsletter

Diane Marcella — Wed, 10 May 2017 16:20:24 +0000

Newsletter, April 30, 2017

Article from National Right to Life by Dave Andrusko, April 16, 2017

Diane Marcella — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 05:30:34 +0000

April 26, 2017 Donald Trump

A pro-life celebration of President Trump’s First 100 days in office

By Dave Andrusko

Pro-life President Donald Trump

National Right to Life News Today produces between 10 and 13 stories each and every day, Monday through Friday. In the last year, no story we posted generated more email than a story I wrote last July under the headline, “Would a President Hillary Clinton be any worse than other pro-abortion Democrat Presidents? Yes! Here’s how.”

We posted a kind of bookend story in February under the headline, “On this President’s Day, What if Hillary Clinton had won?”

The point of both was to emphasize the extraordinary damage a woman who resides at the core of the International abortion movement could do to unborn babies here at home and around the world. Hillary Clinton would have done everything in her power as President to vastly multiple the number of dead babies around the world–and using, where possible, your and my tax dollars.

And even though we repeatedly emphasized the converse–all the good a President Trump could do for unborn babies–that drew less response than a frank harkening of the crippling impact of a Hillary Clinton presidency.

That’s probably just human nature, but as we approach this Saturday–the 100th day of the administration of pro-life President Donald Trump–we need to thank our lucky stars for all that Mr. Trump has already done for our cause.

Understandably, and rightly, we focus on the most recent and likely, the decision with the most long-term impact. In spite of pro-abortion Democratic harassment, President Trump’s choice to replace Antonin Scalia is now on the High Court. There is every reason–every reason– to anticipate that Justice Neil Gorsuch will prove an able and adroit successor to the great Justice Scalia who took the Constitution seriously.

Like you, I read a lot about Gorsuch. Almost nothing impressed me more than his repeated acknowledgments that judges are not legislators. In a speech delivered shortly after Scalia died last year, Gorsuch said

I want to … suggest that perhaps the great project of Justice Scalia’s career was to remind us of the differences between judges and legislators. To remind us that legislators may appeal to their own moral convictions and to claims about social utility to reshape the law as they think it should be in the future. But that judges should do none of these things in a democratic society. That judges should instead strive (if humanly and so imperfectly) to apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and looking to text, structure, and history to decide what a reasonable reader at the time of the events in question would have understood the law to be—not to decide cases based on their own moral convictions or the policy consequences they believe might serve society best.

Bear in mind that with a Supreme Court whose justices’ average age (excluding the 49-year-old Gorsuch) is almost 70, it is not unreasonable to expect at least one more vacancy to occur, if not more.

That’s the skywriting in the sky accomplishment–“Gorsuch confirmed as newest member of the Supreme Court”–but the President has been busy elsewhere. Here are four accomplishments, beginning at the beginning.

#1. Honoring the adage “personnel is policy,” President Trump’s administration is stocked with pro-lifers. To name just a few, they include Vice President Mike Pence, Counselor Kellyanne Conway, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.

#2. On the first day of his first business week President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy. It simply tells nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that, as a condition of their receipt of U.S. federal grant money, they must agree to neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning overseas. But these pro-abortion NGOs are so wedded to facilitating abortion and undermining abortion laws, they will not agree to the restriction.

#3. Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced it will cut off U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund, on the basis that the UNFPA’s activities in China are complicit with that nation’s coercive population control program, the implementation of which includes forced abortion and involuntary sterilization.

#4. Also in April, President Trump signed into law H.J. Res. 43. In recent years, several states receiving Title X family planning grants opted to direct those funds to county health departments, community health centers, or other types of providers, rather than to abortion clinics. But Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services issued a last-minute regulation rule designed to block states from redirecting their Title X funds. H.J. Res. 43 uses the Congressional Review Act to restore that option to redirect Title X funds, if a state so chooses.

And as we look forward, we remember the promises the President made to the pro-life community while he was a candidate and is already keeping: nominate only pro-life justices to the Supreme Court; retain the life-saving Hyde Amendment; sign into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide; and defund Planned Parenthood (which rakes in a half-billion dollars a year from the federal till) as long as they continue to perform abortions, reallocating their funding to community health centers that provide comprehensive health care for women.

At the risk of stating the obvious, President Trump receives an “A” from pro-lifers for his first 100 days in office.

March for Life 2017

Diane Marcella — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:14:56 +0000

On Friday, January 27th, 2017, 42 people (16 men, 25 women and 1 boy) boarded our bus to attend the 44th Annual March for Life! Our group included five students from Westminster College and ten from Grove City College. (The students were such a blessing to this 78 yr. old attending my 34th March for Life.) The youngest was Gunnar, age 10. Autumn, his Mom, has traveled with us for many years.

Our group was filmed by EWTN near the end of the March. We were very visible with our signs with two red hearts and the words, “Abortion, one heart stops…. another heart breaks”.

I had a personal banner which read “Defend God’s Gift of Life… from Conception to Natural Death” . This was carried by me and others; but mostly by Amy and Alex, Grove City College students. The rally prior to the March for Life began at Noon. Hundreds of thousands came from all over the nation. We gathered at the base of the Washington Monument to hear speakers Vice President Mike Pence, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood Director, to name a few. The actual march began around 1:00 PM. Marchers left from the base of the Washington Monument, and marched up Constitution Avenue to the steps of the Supreme Court.

Check out this You Tube Video to see our group at the MARCH FOR LIFE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IvY5qVgq8w&feature=youtu.be
It’s the Entire EWTN Coverage – over 7 HOURS!. To see just us: Drag the red line all the way to 5:52:52 then Go to Settings and choose o.25 speed. Look on the far left of the screen for the Black & White POSTER with the face of a baby and words “Face It Abortion Kills”. This is the first sign of our group and is followed by our PCUC New Castle group, holding white signs with two red hearts and the words “Abortion, one heart stops…. another heart breaks”. The March for Life is inspiring, awesome, prayerful and invigorating, especially for those of us who have spent many years speaking out in defense of God’s gift of Life.

Unlike EWTN, most of the media ignores this huge event which attracts hundreds of thousands every year. The majority who attend are high school and college students.

Abortion is America’s genocide. Planned Parenthood and groups like them are killing over 3,000 tiny little American baby boys and girls every day. Over 1.3 million every year – over 60 MILLION since 1973.

Please Pray and do something each day to help stop the killing of the innocent.

To view more PCUC, New Castle Chapter photos, including a few of the crowd at the March for Life Click Here.

31st “Light a Candle for Life” Prayer Vigil

Diane Marcella — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 00:03:33 +0000

Light A Candle for Life in the Darkness of Abortion

Our 31st annual “Light A Candle for Life” Prayer Vigil seemed better this year. Why? In part, because it was held on Friday, January 20th, the day of the Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. It was now official! We had a Pro-Life President!!

It was also better because
God blessed us with rain stopped at 3pm, the sun came out and nearly 75 people came to Kennedy Square to kneel, pray and light 1,000 luminaria in memory of the 60 million American babies lost to abortion and in concern and sympathy for their Mom’s.

Prayer is a big part of any effort!

“In the past 44 years, we have prayed,
believed and hoped that the evil of abortion would end. Most of us believed that it would only end with the Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton. Today, with the Inauguration of Pres. Donald J. Trump, who said he will nominate pro-life justices to the Court, we may see the beginning of the end.” (A few of my words at Kennedy Square.)

American Heritage Girls & Leader, Kathy Donegan

Thanks Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
Please pray for President Trump. He isn’t perfect; but he is working night and day to protect and defend life and our nation.

Below are links to the video and New Castle News articles by Editor, Dan Irwin of the New Castle News. Dan also posted a video of our event. See link. If you can’t click on it, just copy and paste it. Special Thanks to Dan!

http://videos.ncnewsonline.com/ncnewsonline/cltb7y?v=autoplay_postroll&e=e0018&opn=right_rail_embed

http://www.ncnewsonline.com/news/local_news/pro-life-vigil-returning-to-downtown/image_821a37d2-1ce0-5b64-bbe4-e3f82b121eb5.html

http://www.ncnewsonline.com/news/pro-life-supporters-invoke-trump-s-name-at-service/article_485bb7a4-df79-11e6-8cf8-a77721df2e8b.html

Father John Schmidt & Ellwood City Group

In case you missed it, here is the WKBN coverage of our Friday, Jan. 20th “Light A Candle for Life”.
The first link is the actual tv coverage. The second is the written coverage by Brian Ivey of WKBN.
http://wkbn.com/2017/01/20/new-castle-pro-life-group-holds-vigil-to-pray-for-unborn/.

To view additional photos Click Here.

March for Life 2017 Photos

Diane Marcella — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 01:04:40 +0000

31st Light a Candle for Life, January 20, 2017

Diane Marcella — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 01:14:36 +0000

DEFEND GOD’S GIFT OF LIFE BANQUET ~ THURS., APRIL 14, 2016

Diane Marcella — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 15:55:26 +0000

Defend God’s Gift Poster 2016 < Click to view Poster

The Advisory Board and Officers of PCUC, New Castle Chapter are busy planning our DEFEND GOD’S GIFT OF LIFE BANQUET to be held on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at The New Englander Banquet Center, 3009 Wilmington Road, New Castle, PA. The Banquet begins at 5:30pm with a plated dinner, followed at 6:30pm with nationally known pro-life speakers, Rev. Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life and Attorney Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel. See biographies below.

Tickets: Adults – $20.00

Clergy – Complimentary

Students, Clergy Spouse or Clergy Staff – $15.00

MATHEW D. STAVER, ESQ.

Mat Staver is the Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and also serves as Vice President of Liberty University, Professor of Law at Liberty University School of Law, and Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action. He has the highest AV rating given to attorneys by Martindale-Hubbell and is board certified in Appellate Practice.

Mat holds Bachelor, Master, and Juris Doctorate degrees and an honorary Doctorate of Laws and a Doctorate of Divinity. He has argued two landmark cases before the United States Supreme Court as lead counsel and written numerous briefs before the High Court. Mat has argued in numerous state and federal courts across the country and has over 210 published legal opinions.

He has authored hundreds of popular articles, five scholarly law review publications, numerous brochures and booklets, and 11 books, most of which focus on constitutional law, including his two most recent books, Eternal Vigilance: Knowing and Protecting Your Religious Freedom, which is the most comprehensive book ever written on religious liberty, and Same-Sex Marriage: Putting Every Household at Risk.

Mat produces and hosts Faith & Freedom, a 15-minute daily radio program, and Freedom’s Call, a 90-second daily radio program, focusing on topics of cultural and political interest from a Christian worldview. He serves on the Board of Reference of The Christian Film & Television Commission. As a former pastor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional attorneys, he frequently appears as a guest on national network and cable TV and radio programs and also appears in several thousand print articles each year.

REV. FATHER FRANK PAVONE
National Director, Priests for Life and Missionaries of the Gospel of Life
President, National Pro-life Religious Council
Pastoral Director, Rachel’s Vineyard

FR. FRANK PAVONE is one of the most prominent pro-life leaders in the world. Originally from New York, he was ordained in 1988 by Cardinal John O’Connor, and since 1993 has served full-time in pro-life leadership with his bishop’s permission. He is the National Director of Priests for Life, the largest pro-life ministry in the Catholic Church. He is also the President of the National Pro-life Religious Council, and the National Pastoral Director of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign and of Rachel’s Vineyard, the world’s largest ministry of healing after abortion. He travels throughout the country, to an average of four states every week, preaching and teaching against abortion. He produces programs regularly for religious and secular radio and television networks. He was asked by Mother Teresa to speak in India on the life issues, and has addressed the pro-life caucus of the United States House of Representatives. The Vatican appointed him to the Pontifical Academy for Life and to the Pontifical Council for the Family, which coordinates the pro-life activities of the Catholic Church. He was present at the bedside of Terri Schiavo as she was dying and was an outspoken advocate for her life. He was invited by members of the Class of 2009 at Notre Dame to lead an alternate commencement ceremony for those students who refused to attend the ceremony in which President Obama was honored. Fr. Frank was invited by members of Congress to preach at the prayer service they had in the Capitol just prior to the vote on health care reform. He received the “Proudly Pro-life Award” by the National Right to Life Committee, and numerous other pro-life awards and honorary doctorates. He is the author of four books, Ending Abortion, Not Just Fighting It; Pro-life Reflections for Every Day; Abolishing Abortion, and Proclaiming the Message of Life. Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade abortion decision, called Fr. Frank “the catalyst that brought me into the Catholic Church.”

To view pictures of the event, Click Here.