Prague March for Life Muted by Police While Conciliar “Church” Offers No Defense of the Unborn
The cited article from EWTN News (April 14, 2026) reports that thousands of pro-life marchers filled the streets of Prague on April 11 for the Czech Republic’s annual March for Life, though organizers claim police restrictions significantly depressed turnout at Wenceslas Square. Archbishop Emeritus Jan Graubner of Prague delivered a homily at St. Vitus Cathedral speaking of “the revival of families” and a “culture based on love,” while pro-abortion counterprotesters attempted to block the march, resulting in five arrests. The organizer, Hnutí Pro život ČR, is considering a legal complaint against the police for blocking access to the square. Yet beneath the veneer of this event lies a profound spiritual bankruptcy: a march for “life” orchestrated under the auspices of a conciliar hierarchy that has systematically abandoned the Church’s sovereign authority over the moral order, reducing the defense of the unborn to a mere political demonstration stripped of its supernatural foundation and rendered impotent by a clergy that refuses to exercise the fullness of its divine mandate.



