The political landscape in this land of e Pluribus Unum continues to dissolve into a tapestry of absurd images and surreal gestures, as evidenced by the Democratic National Party Convention in Chicago this past week. Nothing was quite so disturbing, however, as the image of a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Blase Cupich, leading a pious invocation for “peace” even as a hundred feet or so away a mobile abortion clinic was busy offering blood sacrifices (free of charge) to the demons of death. Is Cardinal Cupich blindly unaware that the Democratic party has enshrined “womb-slaughter” as the defining plank of its campaign, because abortion in their eyes is no longer a “necessary evil” but a “positive good” and basic human right? So how does he ever imagine that “peace” will somehow flower out of the soil of this party’s genocidal campaign of cold blooded killing? If he had any personal doubts as to whether his vaunted “peace” could somehow flourish amidst such industrial scale slaughter he clearly kept those misgivings to himself.

Does the cardinal even realize that this same party of death, for which he so heartily carries water, is equally committed to walking all over the conscience rights of those who find abortion to be a reprehensible evil? His own state of Illinois recently passed a law which mandates that all insurance carriers must cover abortion services and likewise prohibits any employer, even religious ones, from firing or disciplining any employee who may have had or is planning to obtain an abortion. Illinois bill #4867 was enthusiastically signed into law by J.B. Pritzker, considered the most pro-abortion governor in the country, who actually proclaimed this past March 10 as “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,” while incoherently thanking abortion providers for their “life saving work.” Yet such twisted logic has become the norm among the progressive left political establishment, a faction which can no longer even define who is, or is not, a woman. None of this rhetorical lunacy seemed to phase Cardinal Cupich as he blithely invoked the blessings of God for “peace” upon unrepentant and murderous zealots who have publicly proclaimed that they will stop at nothing to impose their perverted ideology on the rest of mankind, by force if necessary.