{"id":1861,"date":"2005-09-28T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/power-of-prayer-1.html"},"modified":"2005-09-28T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:31:04","slug":"power-of-prayer-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/power-of-prayer-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Power of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bishop puts out the call<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bishop Saltarelli believes in the power of prayer. During the month of October\u2013which is Respect Life Month\u2013he is asking Catholics in his diocese to pray for a conversion of all politicians, statesmen, and lawyers to an respect for life. He has composed a Litany to St. Thomas More<\/a>, which will be distributed to all the churches in the Diocese of Wilmington for the first weekend in October. The Litany was first distributed to the diocese in October 2004. The diocese comprises 57 parishes, 19 missions, and 40 schools in the State of Delaware and the nine counties of Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore. There are over 220,000 Catholics in the diocese. <\/p>\n

In June 2005, Bishop Saltarelli led several dozen Catholics in praying the Rosary outside the Delaware State House while state House lawmakers inside debated the merits of the Delaware Regenerative Medicine Act, SB 80, which had already passed the state Senate. The embryonic stem cell bill was postponed until January 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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