Abp. Wuerl's Homily at Jan. 22 Pro-Life Mass

Your Eminences, Your Excellencies, brother priests, deacons, women and men in consecrated life, brothers and sisters in the Lord,

Today all of us here at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, join in solidarity with the Church throughout the United States in proclaiming the dignity and value of human life.

What brings us here is also the recognition that we must share our faith, our conviction – that we must proclaim the gospel of life.

There was a part of the homily which really stood out and which left me wondering if and when Archbishop Wuerl will do something to address the complicity ot those Catholic politicians who persist in their public support for abortion:

Silence is the ally of atrocity. Sometimes the silence of individuals is compounded by the means of social communication. The full horror of what is taking place can be presented in a way that most people remain ignorant of what is really happening. Silence and ignorance are twin allies of atrocities. (emphasis added)