Archbishop Wilton Gregory a Mass celebrated at the Capital One Arena before the 2020 March for Life

Peter Zelasko
Archbishop Wilton Gregory a Mass celebrated at the Capital One Arena before the 2020 March for Life

In 2004, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then head of the Church’s doctrinal office, told U.S. bishops in a memo that a Catholic politician “consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws” is engaged in “manifest” and “formal cooperation” in grave sin.