Pax Christi USA’s “Life Does Not End at Birth” statement – a Catholic election year statement that articulates a call for Catholics to vote on the broad range of issues that impact the common good – was placed in more than 30 diocesan and secular publications throughout 2004, reaching more than 30 million Catholics in the U.S. This work was done in partnership with Faithful America and Res Publica.
The statement was published in the following publications:- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio)
- The Dominion Post (Morgantown, W.V.)
- The Morning Call (Allentown, Penn.)
- The Erie Times News (Erie, Penn.)
- The Catholic Chronicle (Toledo, Ohio)
- Dearborn County Register (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- The St. Cloud Visitor (St. Cloud, Minn.)
- The Yankton News (Yankton, S.D.)
- The Mississippi Catholic (Jackson, Miss.)
- The Pittsburgh Catholic (Pittsburgh, Penn.)
- The Greensburg Times (Greensburg, Penn.)
- The Pennsylvania Franklin News (Franklin, Penn.)
- The Laurel Group (Laurel, Penn.)
- U.S. Catholic
- The Inland Register (Spokane, Wash.)
- “Our Sunday Visitor” Op-ed published nationwide on October 31
- The Gannon Knight (Erie, Penn.)
- The Atlanta Journal Constitution
- The Johnstown Tribune Democrat (Johnstown, Penn.)
- The Denver Post
- The Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Co.)
- The Illinois Times
- The Green Bay Press Gazette (Green Bay, Wis.)
- The Appleton Post Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
- The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- The Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, Minn.)
- The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio)
- The LaCrosse Tribune (LaCrosse, Wis.)
- Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio)
- Dubuque Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, Iowa)
- The Michigan State Journal
- Norwich Bulletin (Connecticut)
- The St. Cloud Times (St. Cloud, Minn.)
Many of these were made possible by the generous contributions of our members, local groups, as well as a very generous gift from the Center for American Progress and AFL-CIO.
We also received a gift from the Pascal Foundation in Florida, and placed 60-second radio spots on four different Univision radio stations in Miami, Fla. Eight spots ran on Tuesday, November 2, and several spots ran on Election Eve, November 1.
Media coverage on this advertisement has included coverage in: The New York Times (front page piece), The Associated Press (three times), Catholic News Service, The Tablet (U.K.), Religion News Service, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, The State (S.C.), The Erie Times News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Medical News Today (United Kingdom), Salt Lake Tribune, Charlotte Observer, Boulder Daily Camera (Boulder, Co.), Wheeling News Register (Wheeling, W.V.), Centre Daily Times (State College, Penn.), Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Penn.), Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, Wis.), WJAC-TV (Johnstown, Penn.), WICU-TV (Erie, Penn.), Charleston (W.V.) Gazette and local media in many of the above-mentioned cities.
We also put out a call to our membership, parishes and religious communities to make a commitment to distribute up to 5,000 copies each of our statement in their own communities and churches – with a goal of getting it circulated to millions of Catholic voters. It has been used as a voter education handout at Catholic events in Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Colorado.
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