London’s second March for Life was preceded, like last year's, by an all-night Vigil for Life at the Dominican Rosary Shrine. It nearly didn't go ahead: the organiser, Fr Lawrence Lew OP, was laid up in bed. "I prayed to be well so that the Vigil for Life could go ahead," he remarked, "and on the third day God raised me up from my sickbed!”
The morning after the vigil, there was a new, enlarged LifeFest, featuring a wide programme of talks, workshops, performances and films. Outside, a pro-choice academic stood for three hours in torrential rain diligently counting and photographing those entering the venues. Eventually Stuart McCullough, husband of Clare McCullough who runs the Good Counsel Network for women in crisis pregnancies, put love into action and took her a cup of hot tea and a bar of chocolate. “She’s got real dedication,” he said. “She’ll make a great pro-lifer one day, Lord willing.”
