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Article content adapted from Right to Life.
Christchurch OCDS member Ken Orr was recently awarded the St Gianna & Pietro Molla Award for service to life and family by Right to Life. Ken, the father of Christchurch Diocesan priest Fr Chris Orr, has been a long-term member of the Christchurch Peace of Christ OCDS community.
The award citation states that it was made for “the outstanding contribution to serving life and family by defending the life of unborn children and for consistently holding governmental and other agencies accountable through persistent inquiry.”
Ken Orr is humbled by this award, and states that he has only done what we are all called to do, defend the lives of God’s precious infants, protect their mothers from the violence of abortion, and protect the vulnerable from being killed by a doctor with a lethal injection or assisted in suicide under the End of Life Choice Act. He is indebted to others for their inspiration, example and support.
We are proud of Ken for his work of protecting the vulnerable in a manner that is consistent with the Catholic faith, over an issue that is deeply polarising in modern secular society.