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Dear catholic.com visitors: This Catholic Answers website, with all its free resources, is the world’s largest source of explanations for Catholic beliefs and practices. We receive no funding from the institutional Church and rely entirely on your generosity to sustain this website with trustworthy, accessible content. If every visitor this month donated $1, catholic.com would be fully funded for an entire year. If you’ve never made a gift, now is the time. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar this week only. Thanks and God bless.

Dolores Meehan

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Dolores Meehan, is co-chair of Walk for Life West Coast and works as a systems analyst professionally. A fourth generation San Franciscan, she has become a strong advocate for faithful Catholicism in San Francisco, in California, and nationally. She is known as a pro-life and pro-marriage speaker and has appeared frequently on Catholic Answers Live and EWTN. She was heavily involved as a speaker and in behind-the-scenes organization in the California campaigns to pass Proposition 4 and Proposition 8. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy at the Graduate Theological Union because of her desire to apply sound philosophical principles to ethical issues of life, family, and marriage in the public square.  Her other work includes earlier time volunteering with the Missionaries of Charity in their AIDS hospice in San Francisco.

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