Archbishop Timothy Broglio leads cadets and midshipmen on the 52nd annual March for Life in Washington, DC, on Jan. 24, 2025.
CV NEWS FEED // More than 80 future military officers, including cadets from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, joined Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) Archbishop Timothy Broglio at the March for Life.
According to a press release from the AMS, Archbishop Broglio celebrated Mass at the Archdiocese’s headquarters, the Edwin Cardinal O’Brien Pastoral Center, before the March began.
In his homily, he told the cadets, “We gather at that perfect sacrifice in order to enter into union with Christ before we march together to proclaim his truth about the life and the dignity of the human person.”
He added that it was important for servicemen to frame their actions in the light of Catholic social teaching, which emphasizes each person’s human dignity.
“If society behaves as if life is expendable, up to the option of the individual, then what prevents one from killing someone to have his or her car, watch, inheritance, or whatever,” Archbishop Broglio said. “Violence breeds violence.”
“The Lord tells us that life belongs to Him. He gives it, and he takes it away. This commemoration was established with the wish of defending unborn children, but the ramifications extend to life at any stage of our pilgrimage,” he concluded. “We defend life by proclaiming the dignity of the human person: unborn, immigrants, poor, living in a foreign land, or needing our assistance.”
The 52nd annual March for Life, held Jan. 24 in Washington, D.C., drew pro-life Americans from across the country. Both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance addressed the marchers, as CatholicVote previously reported.
