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."

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.

Religious education has been a babysitting service for far too long.

We more likely face destabilizing, constitutional confusion, than brute authoritarianism.