THE END OF ROE IS ACTUALLY JUST THE BEGINNING

Dear Loyal Friends and Supporters of Catholic Action:

Anyone who has ever been to the March for Life in Washington knows that it is like a yearly booster shot for the pro-life movement. Such enthusiasm! So many pro-life young people! One cannot help but be inspired by the massive rally in defense of the sanctity of human life. The pro-life movement is truly America’s conscience. 

The 2022 March for Life in Washington last week highlighted the important development which was the subject of two Catholic Action Prayer Alerts in early December. Namely, the Supreme Court is reviewing a Mississippi abortion ban that could result in the Court’s overturning the dreadful Roe v. Wade decision that sealed the death warrants of 60 million unborn children in our country since 1973. 

In other words, 2022 may be the year where this national disgrace will be undone. In fact, because of the way the Court works (with a several-month delay between the Justices’ vote and the public announcement), the decision has likely already been made. We must pray that the 2022 review will definitively end the national permission granted to legalized abortion 49 years ago.

However, even if Roe is relegated to the ash heap of history, our work is far from over!

At a Pro-Life Summit meeting that took place on the day after the March, former VP Mike Pence stressed the consequences of resting on our laurels if Roe is overturned. We should not celebrate prematurely. 

Without Roe, the fight to defend the sanctity of all human life will actually be ramping up! When the authority to regulate abortion reverts to the states, we will have fifty battlegrounds on which to fight after that. 

As you know, Catholic Action is not planning on sitting out this battle either. As our name says, we are made for action, but more importantly, we are made for prayer! We’ll keep you posted on the action part as things develop, but in every way we will continue to advocate the power of prayer to vanquish this great evil. 

A spiritual evil must be met with a spiritual force of good. Human efforts are important, an in fact, indispensable, but they are not enough on their own to fight spiritual forces. We must call down the divine power of God to root out the unclean spirits behind the sin of abortion and all other attacks against innocent human life, marriage, and the family. We are all painfully aware that these sins are rampant in our culture. 

Prayer is the answer. 

I have no doubt that 49 years of the humble prayers of our country’s Christian faithful have gotten us to the point of envisioning a post-Roe America. That didn’t seem possible even a few years ago, but “For God, all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26)

As we go forward, we can’t afford to take our eyes off the victory of an abortion-free America, and for that, we must redouble our efforts and triple our prayers.

St. John Vianney said that God controls the world, but prayer controls God. Let that be our motto in the fight to come. 

Sincerely yours in Christ, 

Thomas J. McKenna, President 

P.S. If you haven't had a chance to do so, please Submit Your Intentions for Operation Storm Heaven with Cardinal Burke Feb. 1

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