The Lord said to Cain: “What have you done?…
The Lord’s question… is addressed also
to the people of today,
to make them realize the extent and gravity
of the attacks against life
which continue to mark human history…
—POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II,
Evangelium Vitae, n. 10

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St. John Paul II’s warning of a rising “culture of death” in the West has proven to be a central prophetic word around which all others find their context. “This struggle parallels the apocalyptic combat described in [Rev 12 of the “Woman” vs. the “dragon”],” he warned. “Death battles against Life: a ‘culture of death’ seeks to impose itself on our desire to live, and live to the full.”^[1]Remarks at Sunday Mass at Cherry Creek State Park, Denver Colorado, World Youth Day, August 15, 1993, Solemnity of the Assumption; ewtn.com

A quarter century later, Africa’s Cardinal Robert Sarah rightly declared the struggle as primarily rooted in the West. Indeed, abortion, contraception, assisted suicide, and gender ideology are now considered fundamental human “rights”, even as native populations and birth rates plummet, creating a demographic disaster.Continue reading →