Dr. Paul CB Schenck is the founding director and currently chair of the National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill, located directly across the street from the United States Supreme Court.

Paul was raised Jewish and attended Beth El Hebrew School in Niagara Falls, New York. He studied at the Institute of Jewish Studies in the State University of New York at Buffalo, and took post-graduate studies at Baltimore Hebrew University.

He was founder of two parochial schools, a ministry to the homeless and a global missionary relief organization. In addition to his parish work, he was chaplain to the Law Faculty at Regent University, and Executive Vice-President of the American Center for Law and Justice, a public interest law firm specializing in human life cases before the federal Appellate courts. He holds degrees in Scripture, theology and humanities, and was granted the Graduate Catechetical Diploma under the auspices of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy. He was given the Life Achievement Award by the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio and was awarded the Doctor of Humanities, (honoris causae), by the Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts.

Paul Schenck has been interviewed on all major news networks, CBN and EWTN. He has appeared on Nightline with Ted Koppel, Larry King Live, the Leher News Hour, and ABC 20/20. He has also appeared on European television. He was featured in LIFE magazine, USA Today, Newsweek, Time and World Magazine among many others.

When he was a minister, Schenck challenged a federal district court injunction that restricted pro-life “sidewalk counselors” from approaching men and women with a peaceful, pro-life message. The case, Schenck V. Pro-Choice, reached the United States Supreme Court, which held 8-1 in his favor, striking down the Order as a violation of his First Amendment rights. The Court used his case to strike down similar restrictions across the country.

Paul and his High School sweetheart, Rebecca, married at age eighteen, and they have eight children, ages 30 to 8 years. He and his family came to the Catholic Church in 2004.