![]() Brent Bozell Jr., Chris and Ann Bozell, Michael Schwartz and others at this Lay Catholic Action in front page headline and other news articles on June 6 in the Evening edition of The Washington Star and the Sunday edition of The Washington Post. Students, like Michael's group from Dallas, Triumph (magazine) staff and contributing writers, together with families and subscribers from the Washington Metro area, New England and various other States came to Washington, DC and met at St Stephen Catholic Church on Pennsylvania Avenue for Mass (liturgy), then gathered on George Washington Circle for a rally afterwards. announced that, as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II had recommended, it was time for some of the laity to initiate serious Catholic Action, so Bozell scheduled his Catholic Action for June 6, 1970. When the US Catholic Bishops on Apofficially avoided active leadership in dealing with the incremental legalization of abortion in CA, NY and DC, L. ![]() With Nellie Gray and others, he founded what became the March for Life. For his whole professional life, Mike was at the center of all the most important anti-abortion activities. They promptly occupied a Planned Parenthood facility in Dallas and promptly got arrested. Mike says Triumph (magazine), "became the seedbed for the pro-life movement of the 1960s." Michael Schwartz and his Triumph-enthused fellow students at the University of Dallas formed the Sons of Thunder, one of the first anti-abortion college student groups in America. Michael Schwartz (fourth from right) listening to L Brent Bozell Jr speak at the rally at GW Circle on June 6, 1970 ![]() Brent Bozell Jr., who launched the magazine as the "Catholic version" of his brother-in-law's Conservative political publication the National Review. Buckley and the founding editor of Triumph (magazine), a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, L. This activism was not initiated by Nellie Gray but by the brother-in-law of William F. He traveled to DC from Texas with other members of the Sons of Thunder at the first Pro-Life March in Washington, DC on June 6, 1970. Michael Schwartz became a member of the Sons of Thunder (a name chosen in reference to the Gospel of Mark 3:14-19) at the University of Dallas in 1969. In November 2012, Schwartz was no longer able to fulfill his duties because of his advancing illness and Senator Tom Coburn paid tribute to Schwartz on the Senate floor as "one of the kindest, gentlest people anyone has ever met". He was a member of Operation Rescue and Chief of Staff to Senator Tom Coburn until 2000, and from 2004 to 2012. He also worked as a vice president for Concerned Women for America. ![]() In 1995, Schwartz was named executive director of the House Family Congressional Caucus. Michael Schwartz (1950 – February 3, 2013) was an American leader in the United States anti-abortion movement, a co-founder of the March for Life, and was a founding chairman of the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization Life Decisions International. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( April 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information.
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