January 11, 2021

There are many times when we feel like the “voice crying out in the wilderness” — the words the prophet Isaiah uses to describe the role of John the Baptist in proclaiming the coming of Christ. We are a voice crying out in the wilderness when it comes to sharing Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life — that all life is sacred from conception through natural death. Those at the center of the political realm have often not accepted that teaching. Our culture as a whole — aided by news, social and entertainment media — often ignores it. Even when hundreds of thousands of us have gathered for the March for Life in Washington each year for 47 years,…