Are we facing our own "1967 moment"? The upcoming threat of total decriminalisation of abortion alongside attempts to legalise euthanasia hovering on the horizon can appear to represent a present-day reiteration of the seismic decision to legalise abortion here in the UK back in 1967.

The constant threats to life at its beginning, end and at any vulnerable spots in between are enough to make us feel so far into the dark abyss that we “give up the ghost”, so to speak. One of the real problems we face as pro-life Catholics, is how to keep the momentum going. How do we keep fighting, and writing, helping expectant mothers and spreading the “Gospel of Life”, as Pope St John Paul II called it, when we might be feeling totally without hope ourselves?