By John Zmirak, The Stream, November 17, 2022
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”
The annual Youth Rally and Mass for Life in Washington, D.C. has been cancelled for 2023.
The Archdiocese of Washington announced the decision to cancel the event in an undated notice. The Youth Rally and Mass for Life have attracted thousands of young people over the past 25 years; they gathered in Washington D.C. to celebrate life and pray for an end to abortion as well as taking part in the National March for Life to the Supreme Court.
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[Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory has said that he] would not refuse Holy Communion to pro-abortion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Similarly, in 2020, Gregory did not deny then-Vice President Joe Biden the sacrament despite the latter’s public promotion of abortion.
Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory is one of a vast, repugnant mass of priests and bishops who washed up in clerical orders because they were suited to nothing else (except maybe being night managers at very small Cracker Barrel outlets). Not bright enough to work for the Democratic National Committee, without the taste for the fashion industry or the talent to dance on Broadway, they still wished to live in palaces like the Disney princesses they always secretly knew they really were. And the priesthood rolled out the red carpet for them. …