Wow! What a weekend.<\/p>\n
I attended my first March for Life in Washington DC. Fifteen students from St Joseph\u2019s Catholic School joined others from the diocese and huge numbers from all over America to protest our country\u2019s abortion laws.<\/p>\n
Highlights of the trip were the prayer vigil at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the youth rally before the March where over 20,000 Catholic young people gathered at the Verizon Center in central DC for Mass. The place was packed not only with enthusiastic Catholic young people, but hundreds of seminarians, hundreds of priests, dozens of bishops and cardinals, loads of nuns and friars from the reformed orders and representatives from the new ecclesial movements. \u201cThe Church is alive! The Church is young!\u201d<\/p>\n
A couple of amazing moments were to hear a Jewish rabbi proclaim to hundred of thousands of marchers, \u201cNow is the time for Pope Benedict to lead all the religioius people in the world in the fight against filth, the fight against immorality and the fight against the crime of abortion.\u201d An Afro American preacher highlighted the disproportionate number of abortions that take place among the Afro American community saying it was like genocide. \u201cIf the Ku Klux Klan took a black man out and killed him their would be an outrage, but the men in white coats kill thousands and thousands of black men and women each year while they\u2019re still in the womb. We\u2019re dying!\u201d he cried, \u201cand they\u2019re lying!\u201d<\/p>\n
A friend observed that the sixties and seventies radicals (who are now in their sixties and
seventies) like to whine that the young people of today don\u2019t have any ideals and don\u2019t go on protest marches. Hello?? The young people of today are doing just that in the March for Life, and what they\u2019re protesting is the policies of self indulgent corporate suicide brought in by the sixties and seventies crowd.<\/p>\n
The March for Life is Alive! The March for Life is Young!<\/p>\n
Amy Welborn has links <\/a>to some good photos and coverage Wow! What a weekend. I attended my first March for Life in Washington DC. Fifteen students from St Joseph\u2019s Catholic School joined others from the diocese and huge numbers from all over America to protest our country\u2019s abortion laws. Highlights of the trip were the prayer vigil at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
Check out this video <\/a>by some young Dominicans<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"