Fr. Gerard Wilberforce

William Wilberforce’s Great Grandson Says if Alive Today Wilberforce Would Fight Abortion

William Wilberforce’s Great Grandson Says if Alive Today Wilberforce Would Fight Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com Editor’s Note: The following letter by Fr Gerard Wilberforce, a Catholic priest in Exeter, who is the great grandson of the famed William Wilberforce is reproduced with the permission of Independent Catholic News. By Fr. Gerard Wilberforce March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I am writing as the great great grandson of William Wilberforce, who campaigned vigorously for the ending of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, which ultimately paved the way for the abolition of slavery itself throughout the entire British Empire in 1833. I am […]
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