Weekly Message from Fr. Rick:

Over a year ago now, the COVID-19 pandemic began taking lives and disrupting the ordinary rhythms of life here in the United States and throughout the world.  And everywhere, government and public health authorities instituted various forms of lock downs on whole societies.  Schools were closed, businesses disrupted or shut down, travel was in many places restricted in a way that this country had not seen at least since the “Spanish influenza” pandemic of 1918-19.  Again and again, and quite correctly we heard, these measures, harsh and restrictive though they are, were necessary to protect life ... we had to do what was necessary to protect the public, especially the most vulnerable from this disease.  I cannot be the only one who noticed the striking similarity to this argument that the pro-life movement have been making for decades.  Abortion threatens, indeed, ends the lives of the most vulnerable among us.  As society rallied to fight the COVID-19 virus, how can we do any less to protect our unborn sisters and brothers from this lethal threat to their very lives?
 
Let us all continue to pray for the day when the scourge of abortion as well as the plague of COVID-19 are both done away with for all time!

Fr. Rick