By Wanda Skowronska
Monsignor Reilly, the founder of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants has often said that evil of great magnitude calls for a spiritual response of great magnitude. One could say his motto is ‘A spiritual war must be fought by spiritual means’. And yet how deeply do we as a society and as Catholics in Western society truly understand this? Do we understand that the spiritual war against life with all its aspects—abortion, contraception, sterilisation, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research—has such a Goliath-like grip on our society that it pervades it at every corner. Many of our ‘normal’ activities actually are in the midst of the ‘new killing fields’ of Western society. We go to pharmacies where the morning after pill and ‘contraceptives’—which kill infants—are dispensed to numerous customers standing alongside us. When we drive through the suburbs, we pass modern abortion clinics doing ‘business as usual’. When we go to hospital to visit a sick friend genetic testing proceeds nearby sounding the death knell for unborn children. Invisible orphans surround us in the ‘frozen orphanages’ where embryos are stored in numerous suburban laboratories. In schools children are presented with sex education programs which prepare them to accept these realities as a matter of course. [Read more…]