No feast in the liturgical calendar more perfectly and completely justifies, celebrates, and embodies the pro-life cause than Christmas.
Pope St. John Paul II highlighted this connection in the opening paragraphs of his great pro-life encyclical – Evangelium Vitae – where he quotes the angels’ triumphant greeting to the shepherds of Bethlehem: “I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
Christmas, wrote the sainted pope, “reveals the full meaning of every human birth, and the joy which accompanies the Birth of the Messiah is thus seen to be the foundation and fulfilment of joy at every child born into the world” (no. 1).
As pro-lifers gazing upon the nativity scene, we cannot but be struck by two things: 1) That the Christ child, lying in the manger, was so recently an unborn child, resting in the womb of His mother, Mary and 2) that this tiny human frame, so weak and helpless, is the tabernacle for God Himself, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity. . .
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Sincerely yours in Christ, 
Father Shenan J. Boquet
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