{"id":19725,"date":"2014-01-28T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=19725"},"modified":"2014-01-28T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:54:13","slug":"west-coast-walk-for-life-archbishop-cordileone-asks-young-people-to-defend-life-and-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/01\/west-coast-walk-for-life-archbishop-cordileone-asks-young-people-to-defend-life-and-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Walk for Life: Archbishop Cordileone Asks Young People to Defend Life and Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Archbishop Cordileone called on young people at the West Coast March for Life to defend both the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of marriage.<\/p>\n

His message is especially powerful, coming as it does from an area of the country in which much of the population appears to be hostile to traditional values. <\/p>\n

I see Archbishop Cordileone\u2019s statement as the first of what will grow into a movement in the future. Promoters of gay marriage often tell us that in a few years, people will look back on those of us who support traditional marriage and say that we were on the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n

Not so, my friends.<\/p>\n

In future years, the struggle for traditional marriage will still be on-going. Like the pro-life movement, it will grow stronger as the debacle we have brought on ourselves becomes more apparent.<\/p>\n

The first step is for Christian people to reclaim the sanctity of marriage in their own lives. This means that Christian spouses should keep their vows to love and cherish one another, forsaking all others. <\/p>\n

From The National Catholic Register:<\/p>\n

\nSAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A massive crowd stretching out for a mile in sunny downtown San Francisco showed the growing momentum of the Walk for Life, which celebrated its 10th anniversary\u00a0for participants from across California and neighboring states.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 25,\u00a0more than\u00a050,000 people gathered in front of San Francisco City Hall, and the diverse crowd included a mix of ages and\u00a0ethnic and religious groups, with songs and prayer in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, during hishomily\u00a0at the Mass proceeding the rally, congratulated the young people present for embracing the pro-life movement and for joining the hundreds of lay activists, priests, women and men religious and seminarians at St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe steadily expanding presence of young people at the Walk for Life, he said, underscored a new generation\u2019s awareness that abortion harms rather than helps women.<\/p>\n

\u201cForty years and\u00a058 million abortions later, the very painful truth has come to light: Yes, abortion does hurt women,\u201d said Archbishop Cordileone.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Church leader credited an older generation of pro-life activists with helping to change the nation\u2019s view of abortion and demonstrating \u201cheroic virtue\u201d during past decades when those who challenged the legalization of abortion were stigmatized. Now, he warned the students at the cathedral, they must help enlighten their own peers about the central role of marriage as the sanctuary of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pro-life movement is about more than saving the life of the baby,\u201d said Archbishop Cordileone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s especially about connecting that baby to where he or she came from: the mother and the father.\u00a0\u2026There is no other institution that does that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 Archbishop Cordileone urged the young Catholics at the cathedral to stay \u201cclose to Christ\u201d as they seek to present the truth about marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuture generations will understand that the natural truth of marriage benefits everyone and discriminates against no one,\u201d he predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut prepare yourselves: It will require heroic virtue, for there is a lot of reverse bullying going on these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

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