‘You never fold’: Cuban American family takes a stand at canceled March for Life By Dorothy Cummings McLean for Life Site News
In Cuba, the church had always had an outdoor procession to celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. After the Communist revolution, the Catholic Church decided to cancel the march.
The tiny, unofficial March for Life (in lieu of the canceled official march with hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers) happened over a month ago, but its lessons linger.
To recap: There was an official, online, livestreamed March for Life to mark the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, arranged in the face of the coronavirus crisis and the changeable lockdowns affecting vast swathes of the United States. But there was also a small, scattered parade of about 600 pro-lifers who insisted bringing the pro-life message to the Capitol live and in person.
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Fr. Alan Wharton of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate was among them. He interviewed a number of people at the small rally on video, and the recording was subsequently sent to LifeSiteNews by Cape Cod Bus for Life.
Pacelli Pujals, one of the people interviewed by Fr. Alan, came from the Chicago area with his wife Mary Therese and daughter Mary Grace Faustina. They were accompanied by Pacelli’s sister Maria Pujals Fernandez and Mary Grace Faustina’s young friend Dasha, who has begun a pro-life club at her school.
Pacelli said his sister first brought him to the March for Life when he was a kid. Then, after he married, he went many times with his family. He credited his Cuban-born father with impressing upon him the importance of “never folding” in the face of adversity.
“We escaped communism, the intrinsic evil of Marxist-Leninism in Cuba,” Pacelli explained. “My dad was very adamant that we left because of the atheist system.”
