Rick Santorum's infant son Gabriel died hours after he was born. He describes it as one of the greatest gifts of his life — and explains why. From the conviction that the only truly eternal act a person can do is bring a new soul into the world, to the moment he found himself alone on the Senate floor carrying the partial-birth abortion bill when no other senator was willing to touch it, Santorum traces how grief, faith and fatherhood shaped everything that followed.

00:00 Why faith cannot be a private matter
00:41 The death of his son Gabriel and what it taught him
01:31 Shepherding children to heaven as a father's vocation
02:35 Family life: seven children, thirteen grandchildren
03:39 The only truly eternal act a person can do
04:18 How grief shaped his pro-life convictions
05:26 Coming to the Senate and finding the Lord
06:03 Taking up the partial-birth abortion bill when no one else would

Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYpZCFS9SHg

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Host: Mary Margaret Olohan
Guest: Senator Rick Santorum
Film Crew: Cavern Collective
Production Team: Arcadia Digital

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