In this age when abortion is legal, funded, promoted, and even celebrated, we need to recognize the true and fierce spiritual battle it entails.
Abortion is the attempt to destroy and to remake human nature in our own image, instead of God’s image. It is to compel everyone to place themselves as creatures sharply and foolishly above the authority of the holy, almighty and merciful God and His revealed eternal truth in determining right and wrong.
Indeed, just as with original sin, abortion ends with death.
We must pray and work fervently for the conversion and healing of all who promote and protect, pursue and provide the killing of the innocent unborn. A society that kills its own children is self-destructive and has no future. All Catholics, clergy as well as laity, must stand strong and united in this most consequential fight.
Michael Coyle lives in Charlotte.