Cardinal Dolan: "We come together this sacred evening in a church we claim as a sanctuary...to reclaim the belief that a mother's womb is the primal sanctuary, where a helpless, innocent, fragile, tiny baby must be safe, secure, nurtured and protected."

Cardinal Tobin: "Closing borders and building walls are not rational acts.... Mass detentions and wholesale deportation benefit no one; such inhuman policies destroy families and communities."

"Allowing the plunder and destruction of God's wondrous creation to support the greed of a few is morally, spiritually and ethically wrong."

The Mass attracted pro-life student groups from across the nation who are in Washington for the March for Life.

Elites are defined less by the position they hold than by their pretense to dictate reality.

"Every time I think of my husband and imagine what torture would have made him into, my heart aches."