Quote of the Week

It moves one’s heart to think:
Nine months before I was born
there was a woman who loved me deeply.
She did not know what I was going to be like,
but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.
And when she gave me birth,
she took me in her arms,
because her love was not just beginning–
she conceived it along with me.

A mother loves–
and that is why abortion is so abhorrent:
a mother who aborts is unfaithful to the love
that she should have
(like God in eternity)
before her child is born.

Archbishop Oscar Romero

Archbishop Romero, The Violence of Love. trans. James R. Brockman SJ (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), 85