A Beacon of Hope Amidst Tragedy

My morning started off pretty awesome.  My son gave me hugs and kisses before I dropped him off at daycare, several of my friends were already on their way to the Pro-Life March in D.C., and I was on my way to the most awesome job in the world (made that much more awesome by the fact that my coworkers are pretty much the best people in the universe).  That all being said, I looked something like this:

LIFE IS CRAZY AWESOME - YAAAAAAY!

About an hour or so after getting to work, however, one of those aforementioned awesome coworkers sent me this article which put me in a mood decidedly...

That smell isn't my diaper - it's the smell of St. Thomas More vomiting from Heaven.

After a few minutes of fuming - loudly - I checked to see which diocese St. Thomas More was actually a part of.  I wanted to make sure it wasn't Archbishop Chaput's old Denver stomping grounds.  When I found out the hospital was located in the diocese of Pueblo, I hopped over to their site to find out if any statement had been made by the bishop there.  When I got to their homepage (found here), I took a moment to read the press release posted there.  While reading, I probably looked a little something like this:

Money, yo. These bishops are MONEY.

The quick (and pointed) response to this situation is incredibly heartening.  In fact, I was SO pleased that they responded that I wrote the wonderful folks over in Pueblo to tell them how wonderful I thought their bishops were in a letter to the Office of the Bishop.  I would suggest all of you do the same.  When you're done praising them for being defenders of Life, go ahead and exercise your fingers by then moving over to St. Thomas More Hospital's site to unleash a lesson or two on what TRUE Catholics stand up for and defend.

This, my dear friends, is what today's version of Defending the Faith looks like.  We might not need to shed our blood in the Colosseum (yet), but we do need to take a stand and refuse to back down on our beliefs simply because it's financially beneficial to do so.  Those hack-job lawyers in Colorado have just destroyed so much of what the Pro-Life movement has worked hard for.  How DARE they claim that fetuses aren't people only to kick a lawsuit under the rug!

My heart goes out to the father who lost his wife and children.  How invalidated he must feel that a set of Catholic representatives (whether or not they were Catholic themselves doesn't matter - they represented a Catholic Institution, and thus should have reflected Catholic values in their actions) basically told him his two children were nothing... that they were undeserving of proper care because they weren't technically alive by the standards of the law...

I am sickened by that!  At the very least the firm representing the hospital should never again be allowed to step foot in the courtroom in defense of St. Thomas More.  I'd also like to see the administrators of this particular hospital feel a little fire for their part.  SOMEONE over there had to have given some sort of consent to this diabolical argument.  Ugh - I just... I can't.


Anyway, after you spit some of your justified venom their way, refresh yourself by viewing some of the incredible, uplifting and thought-provoking images of today's incredibly successful March for Life.  These imagines?  They'll remind you that you're not alone in your desire to see a better, brighter future for this generation and all generations to follow.  They'll remind you that you're part of something bigger... something mystical... something militant - the Body of Christ.

Mobilized and militant - we will not remain silent!