For the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that ended Roe v. Wade, I found myself over an hour away from the George Washington Bridge, at a convent hidden within a protective shield of greenery. Marycrest is the home of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate, and Mother Maria Catherine there has me thinking about and Abraham Lincoln. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln famously began his conclusion with "With malice toward none, with charity for all ..."

That sounds like an American calling, doesn't it? Fifty years of legal abortion doesn't reflect that idea of malice toward none, from where I'm standing. Nor do some recent postures toward refugees seeking asylum the United States. But there is still time to reflect on what it means for a president to talk about the "mystic chord of memory," as Lincoln did in his first inaugural.

Regarding charity, in his second inaugural, Lincoln said: "With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are........

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