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Dying for Money
By Judie Brown If it is true that residing in a civilized community depends on whether or not the citizens are living at a high level of cultural and technological development, then in many respects we are still in the stone age. With all the claims about our highly sophisticated society, many continue to resort to killing as an answer to rising medical costs or emotional trauma allegedly...
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The Weird, Weird World of Choice
By Judie Brown It is always good to revisit the use of any word, especially when it is consistently used out of context. For our purposes today, the word is choice. Webster says the word means selection or option, such as selecting a specific loaf of bread or opting...
Losing Our Moral Sanity
By Judie Brown If you are at all a fan of logic and common sense, then you already know that the current era in which we live is reticent when it comes to teaching, let alone living the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude,...
Killer Thaw
By Judie Brown While I am not a fan of horror movies, there is one scenario that might be acceptable in a scary movie but that is tragic in real life. This deadly practice happens every day as embryonic children are frozen and subsequently tossed aside by their own...
Defend Life against the World
By Judie Brown Saint Athanasius of Alexandria was known for his strong defense of the teaching of the Catholic Church, which led him at one point to say, “If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.”Today we could benefit from that same conviction,...
Blurring Right and Wrong
By Judie Brown Aristotle once wrote, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Indeed, those words reflect the commonsense attitude of someone who has learned the difference between good and evil and who proceeds to...
The Death of Principle
By Judie Brown The world is turning upside down. One by one, people are dying like flies because they either want to die or because they want their babies to die. The Hippocratic principle of “first do no harm” is now a relic. In Peru, a psychologist who contracted a...