Catholics at the Capitol Recap

This Wednesday, we traveled to Springfield for the second annual Catholics at the Capitol and had a great time!  We planned to blog about our trip, but the Pro-Life Action League beat us to it.  Check out the snippet below and read the full post here."Next we joined John-Paul Deddens, President of Students for Life of Illinois, along with a group of students in delivering some materials on HB6205 to the Reps on the Human Services committee which is currently holding the bill and is likely to vote on it next week.We took the sheet that the Catholic Conference of Illinois had provided to participants, highlighted the information on HB6205 and put our signatures on the sheet for a personal touch. Then we hand-delivered them with our group to each Rep’s office, making sure to be clear to the Rep or their assistant which bill we were there about and how we wanted the Rep to vote.Such an incredible influx of Catholics raising their voices for life and justice had a huge effect on legislators last year and I have no doubt that Wednesday’s lobbying day did the same."In related news, we recently received a follow up letter regarding Cupcakes at the Capitol from Senator Bill Brady.   Senator Brady wrote "I am very sorry that I was not available to meet with you but I want to let you know that the work that your organization is doing is not going unnoticed.Students like yourselves are the future of this country and the future of this state.  It is great to see students rallying together to make a difference."We are so thankful for legislators like Senator Brady who join with us in the fight for life!