Catholic News Agency reports on the upcoming 53rd National March for Life in Washington D.C., featuring Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Rep. Chris Smith as speakers. The event’s theme – “Life Is a Gift” – ostensibly celebrates life while coordinating with post-conciliar structures like the USCCB’s National Prayer Vigil at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, led by Cardinal Seán O’Malley. This spectacle demonstrates the conciliar sect’s reduction of Catholic moral theology to sentimental naturalism divorced from the supernatural order.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The article’s emphasis on “Life Is a Gift” constitutes a deliberate evacuation of Catholic soteriology. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) establishes that all moral action must be ordered toward Christ’s Social Kingship: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (§19). The March organizers invert this hierarchy by making “celebration of each and every life” an end rather than directing temporal efforts toward mankind’s supernatural end.
Nowhere does the event demand what Leo XIII prescribed in Immortale Dei (1885): that states must “have care for religion… protect it by the sanction of the law” (§6). The March’s stated goal – “a world where every life is celebrated, valued, and protected by everybody — both in private sector and public sphere” – deliberately omits the sine qua non of societal order: formal submission to the Catholic Church as the one true religion established by God. This silence constitutes implicit acceptance of religious indifferentism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15).
Omission of Requisite Catholic Principles
The event’s interfaith character betrays its theological bankruptcy. When organizers invite “all people to rediscover the beauty, goodness, and joy of life itself“, they commit the Pelagian error of suggesting natural virtue suffices for salvation. The Council of Trent infallibly teaches that without grace and incorporation into the Church through valid sacraments, fallen man cannot fulfill the moral law (Session VI, Canon 2). The participation of schismatic groups like Damascus Worship and the Friends of Club 21 Choir further illustrates the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Cardinal O’Malley’s involvement in the National Prayer Vigil exemplifies apostasy. As a leading destroyer of the Faith who promotes communion for public adulterers and allows sacrilegious Eucharistic practices, his celebration of Mass constitutes simulation of sacraments. The article’s reference to overnight “seminarian-led Holy Hours” is particularly grotesque given that post-conciliar seminaries produce men incapable of valid ordination due to defective rite and intention.
Inherent Contradictions of Conciliar “Pro-Life” Activism
The March’s political dimension reveals its fundamental dishonesty. Speaker Mike Johnson actively supports Zionist heretics who deny Christ’s divinity, while JD Vance promotes in vitro fertilization – another intrinsic evil. Their participation proves the event is a political rally rather than Catholic witness. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemns such naturalism: “The pursuit of novelty in the investigation of the foundations of things leads… to deplorable consequences” (Introduction).
The article’s claim that the March continues “its mission to protect life at the state and federal levels” after Dobbs constitutes deception. Authentic Catholic action would demand total abolition of abortion through civil law’s submission to divine law. Instead, organizers settle for regulating child murder – an approach Pius XI condemned when warning against those who “make God and religion, Christ and His Church, serve a worldly spirit” (Quas Primas §24).
The Illusion of Opposition
Lila Rose’s involvement in Life Fest exemplifies the controlled opposition permeating the event. Her organization Live Action promotes voting for pro-abortion politicians who support limited abortion restrictions – a mortal compromise condemned by Pius XII: “It is not permissible to vote for a political program or for a law which contradicts the natural law” (Address to Italian Catholic Action, 1956). The Georgetown University Right to Life group’s presence is equally scandalous, given the university’s formal apostasy from Catholic teaching.
The March’s musical performances and “celebration of life” rhetoric constitute what St. Pius X identified as Modernism’s key error: “replacing divine revelation with human religious consciousness” (Pascendi §6). Nowhere do organizers call for America’s conversion to Catholicism or denounce the constitutional heresy of religious liberty. This omission confirms the March functions as a safety valve to dissipate Catholic resistance into harmless cultural expression.
“We envision a world where every life is celebrated, valued, and protected.”
This vacuous statement epitomizes the conciliar revolution’s anthropocentric shift. Contrast it with Pius XI’s unambiguous doctrine: “Christ has dominion over all creatures… by natural right and acquired right” (Quas Primas §13). The true pro-life movement demands nations recognize Christ’s reign through constitutional establishment of the Catholic Church, prohibition of false worship, and penal statutes against heretics – all rejected by March organizers who instead collaborate with enemies of Christ the King.
Source:
March for Life 2026: ‘Life Is a Gift’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.01.2026