Fr. Dave Nix / X
CV NEWS FEED // Father Dave Nix announced Feb. 12 that he is going to trial for his part in a peaceful pro-life protest that took place in 2019 at a New Jersey abortion clinic.
Fr. Nix wrote on his X account, “Yesterday, I found out I am finally going to trial for the New Jersey peaceful pro-life rescue and arrest in 2019. Our trial is on 14 Mar 25, the feast of Our Lady Of Sorrows. Trial will be with Fr. Fidelis and Will. Maximum sentence should be 30 days in jail, but join us in praying for zero.”
Fr. Nix referenced the Red Rose Rescue that he, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Will Goodman, and an anonymous fourth protester were arrested for. The four had entered an abortion clinic in Morristown, New Jersey, offering red roses to women in the waiting area.
The Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, reported that the rescue saved two unborn babies.
Fr. Moscinski and Goodman were among the federal pro-life prisoners pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Fr. Moscinski was in prison for putting bicycle locks on the entrance to a Planned Parenthood in Hampstead, New York, in July 2022, as CatholicVote previously reported. Goodman was indicted for an October 2020 protest inside of late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s clinic in Washington, D.C., in which he helped block the entrance to the clinic.
Fr. Nix explained that the trial was occurring soon because Fr. Moscinski and Goodman were pardoned for their Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act “violations.”
“The ironic thing is that we would not be going to this old state-trial for a while longer if Fr. Fidelis and Will Goodman had not just been pardoned by Trump at the federal level for their pro-life work,” he wrote. “(That pardon got Will out of prison, but Fr. Fidelis was already out of prison.) Still, I’d rather get it over with since at some point we would have to have faced the state’s injustice for saving lives in a country where child-slaughter is permitted.”
