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Change the culture, not just the law
Lately I’ve been thinking about gifts, and the meaning of them, because of the March for Life and its 2026 theme: “Life is a gift.”
For over a decade, I’ve written about the March for Life, which calls itself the “largest annual human rights demonstration in the world.”
How are Catholics in our time and place to understand the commandment “You shall not kill” (Ex 20:13; Dt 5:17)?
More than 30 years ago, the poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen penned “The Future,” which included the darkly prophetic line: “I have the seen the future, brother, it is murder.”