Each precious unborn in the mother's womb proclaims through the Holy Spirit of God, "I give you thanks that I am fearfully and wonderfully made," and "truly you have formed by inmost being — you knit me in my mother's womb."

“I believe that the Dobbs decision was an answer to prayer,” Bishop Michael J. Sis said during his homily July 17 at the Cathedral Church of the Sacred Heart in San Angelo. The Mass was the third diocesan Mass of Thanksgiving for the decision in the Supreme Court case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned the ruling of Roe vs. Wade and ended nearly half a century of federal protection for abortion around the country. Previous Masses of Thanksgiving were held on July 9 at St. Stephen Church in Midland and July 11 at Holy Family Church in Abilene.