In the wake of last week’s tragic incident in Tuscon there have been reams of pages written about human nature, with one spin or another on the subject.

I haven’t read anything that is as poignant and beautiful as what Monsignor Charles Pope – pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian – has composed on his blog hosted by the Archdiocese of Washington.

Here’s an excerpt “Life is Worth Living: On the Strength and Resilience of the Human Person”…

One of the rights our modern age demands is the right to declare that certain lives are not worth living. In utero testing sometimes reveals the possibility or even the certainty of birth defects. Abortion is often recommended to mothers who carry “defective” children and sometimes that recommendation becomes pressure. It is said that almost 90% of families who receive a poor pre-natal diagnosis choose to abort.

And yet there are so