Bishop Davies was attending an annual pro-life pilgrimage to Walsingham

Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury has spoken of the need to promote the "Gospel of Life with joy".

Bishop Davies, who was attending an annual pro-life pilgrimage to Walsingham, said that: "We will be asked whether we stood idle all day or whether we prayed and made reparation, used our own voices for the defenceless and gave witness to the sanctity of human and family life." [Catholic Herald, 23 September]

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