Today
is a great day for America and the Church, and a debt of gratitude is
owed to all who boldly spoke up, worked, and voted for pro-life
candidates, starting with our new President-elect. I am grateful to all
of you and our whole team
for all the work of this long, contentious election cycle.
Our
nation will now embark on a path to eliminate abortion and to foster
the freedom of the Church. We will be able to advance such an agenda
because of the pro-life majorities that now exist both in the House of
Representatives and in the Senate.
In particular, this election
victory means the end of the HHS mandate, against which Priests for
Life was one of the first groups to launch a challenge in federal
court. That challenge, joined by various dioceses and other groups, has
gone all the way to the Supreme Court, and is still unresolved. Now,
however, we see a bright light at the end of the tunnel.
Priests
for Life will continue to be at the forefront of the pro-life efforts
both within and beyond the Church - and by "pro-life" we mean
specifically working to end abortion and restore protection to children
in the womb.
We at Priests for Life - and I personally -
welcome all who want join us. We are an open book, and we renew the
invitation which we have extended multiple times in the past to all
clergy and laity, to come and visit us and learn more about what we do
and how we do it.
For what we do, we face much opposition and
even hostility. We are not concerned about any of the criticism that
has been launched against us, whether from within or outside the
Church. Such opposition is a way of life for those who actively work to
end abortion. Opposition and criticism do not burden me or my team at
all, because there is a far greater burden every single day our minds
and hearts: the continued slaughter of thousands of children every day
by abortion.
Added to that burden is the silence of so many laity and clergy, and countless faithful have had enough of that.
We
have no dispute with anyone who wants to end abortion, but only with
those - such as the majority of Democratic politicians - who want to
hide it and allow it to continue. For many years, and right up to this
Election Day, many of the attacks launched against me and my
organization have been motivated by partisan politics, and in
particular by Democratic supporters who know the damage our work does
to their abortion agenda. We are proud to endure those attacks and, as
has happened in this election, we will continue to be victorious.
