Exiit qui seminat
For the first time in the history of the March for Life, the Catholic Church and others of good will marched “virtually” on the Supreme Court on January 22. While this year's march was affected by the worldwide pandemic, it did not stop thousands of thousands of people from gathering together and to make sure our voices were heard peacefully protesting against the moral issue of our age - abortion and its proliferation in our country.
All of this happens in the midst of the imminent rollback of the banning of federal funds for groups that promote and provide abortions both at home and abroad and the imposition of a mandate of paying for contraception by companies that have moral objections to doing so, including the long, drawn out fight by the Little Sisters of the Poor, which seemed to have "ended" this past year.
Often times, the Pro-Life Movement and our vigorous pursuit of the end of an evil that targets the dignity of women, the sanctity of innocent human life, as well as being a grave civil rights issue, can be confused as condemning people rather than the abortion industry itself. However, as Christ taught us, we must hate the sin and love the sinner. So as a nation and a Church, we pray for the protection and dignity of human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. We pray for groups like Good Counsel Homes and Options for Women that help support women who are pressured to believe that abortion is their only choice. We pray for the conversion of the hearts and minds of politicians and legislators that they truly act toward the common good and the Gospel, as well as the conversion of those in the abortion industry to bring an end to this terrible scourge upon our society. In the words of St. Teresa of Calcutta, "Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love is abortion." May we learn to love the least and the most vulnerable among us.
