Fellow Knights- be prepared

 A few minutes ago as I write this, the Supreme Court struck down Roe V. Wade and Planned Parenthood V Casey in Dobbs V Jackson Women's Health.  

You can read about it on the SCOTUS blog

My brothers, as we have already seen in the past few months since the initial leak, those who are a part of the culture of death cannot be expected to react in a civil way to this decision.  Mother and Child Education Center, which we support as a council, has been vandalized already in reaction to the leak.  It is entirely possible we will see scattered protesting at Mass this weekend.  

While I doubt greatly that the three parishes we cover will see such protesting, as Knights we are visibly pro-life, and we will get questions from our fellow parishioners, especially those who see this decision as endangering women. 

Our messaging should be that given the politics in Oregon, this decision changes nothing here other than to increase demand on our tax dollars for the free abortions available here, but that we Knights stand firm in supporting women facing crisis pregnancies, both before and after birth.

Just in case, be sure to have your rosary on you for Mass this weekend.  Should protesters attempt to disrupt Mass, it is our duty to protect the Eucharist at all costs.  Start by answering their chants with a decade of the Rosary, advance slowly, but calmly.  Try to surround them and move them out of the church.  Stop at the threshold of the Church yourself, and keep saying decades until there is police response to the protest, or until Mass is concluded.  This strategy has worked elsewhere very powerfully, to end the protests peacefully.

God be with you in all that you do in support of compassionate response to the culture of death.