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Fr. Kevin Gabriel Gillen, O.P., was ordained to the priesthood in 2000, Fr. Gillen joined the Order of Preachers in 2005 after earning degrees from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, commonly known as the Angelicum, in Rome. Prior to answering the call to priesthood he worked several years as a stock broker on Wall Street. Fr. Gillen is currently assigned to Saint Joseph in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he serves to promote evangelization through media for the Province and hosts the weekly program “Word to Life” on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 and XM 117.
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Google's recent announcement that it will no longer censor Google.cn in China was commendable. It would be wonderful if the New York Times would follow suit. Ironically, today anyone in China would get better results googling "the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square" than trying a search for "the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade" in the New York Times website. Organizers for the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., say some 300,000 people, mostly young people, walked under overcast skies last Friday to stand up for the unborn. They were joined by another 78,000 virtual pro-lifers, yet this event was not considered news worthy by many major news outlets. The Washington Post could not ignore something of this magnitude happening in their own backyard, and Robert McCartney wrote an interesting op-ed piece.
Last year Steve Sanborn, a development and public relations professional, grew weary of the inaccurate or lack of coverage. So he brought a crew together, including documentary film producer Jack Cashill and set up cameras on rooftops to record and show the true numbers of March for Life participants. The Christian Post reports, "Thine Eyes: A Witness to the March or Life is the first high-end documentary on the March for Life. It follows groups of college and high school students from Atchison, Kan., St. Louis, and Birmingham, Ala., who load buses to travel to the 2009 March for Life. Cameras on the ground show a diverse crowd who have traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to march one mile in Washington - all united for the purpose of protecting the unborn. One 19-year-old student in the film expresses his dismay that Americans are pushing for laws to protect animals, plants and the environment yet are allowing a human life to be killed. 'Thine Eyes' refutes the media's reporting of not only the number of marchers but also their portrayals of marchers as angry and old. The film reveals that the majority of March for Life participants are under 25 years of age and not violent. 'A lot of times it's surprising for people seeing the number of people for the first time who are all united,' one young female student in the film says. 'For a first-timer that's someone that may grow in their zeal for the movement just by seeing the sheer number of people there, being able to observe it and take it all in and really see for themselves how many people in America are pro-life and that pro-lifers aren't just the weirdo person you see walking down the hall at school or some radical who's not likable at all.'"