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It was the celebration that was particularly galling.
On the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, signed into law a protocol that gives practically unrestricted access to abortion, permitting the killing of an unborn child up until the moment of delivery.
It is somewhat of a misnomer when we say that liturgically we have entered “Ordinary Time.” In daily usage the term ordinary has come to mean common, eventless or run-of-the-mill, and it is often used in a pejorative sense. Who wants to be ordinary? But the Church traditionally calls this time (right now, between the Christmas season just passed and the Lent to come) “Tempus Per Annum” or “time throughout the year.”