JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

We have heard the story of Christ’s conception and birth so many times that maybe we are not even listening anymore.

One of the least reported, but most blatantly repugnant expenditures contained in the Senate version of the health care reform bill is the allocation of $75,000,000 to Planned Parenthood and its cohorts for the express purpose of initiating the “Personal Responsibility Education for Adulthood Training” programs.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood have filed lawsuits in several states, including Nevada, to stop personhood initiatives.

Pope John Paul II made the proclamation of the Gospel of life one of the central aspects of his papacy.

For all those doubting Thomas-types who refuse to accept the fact that we live in a culture steeped in all kinds of euphemisms designed to deny that every human being has dignity and integrity, this is a wake-up call.

As I listened to Senator Harry Reid discussing health care reform over Thanksgiving weekend, it occurred to me that something is amiss.

Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” one of the greatest country-and-western hits of all time, romanticized a young woman’s appreciation for her daddy, his hard work, her siblings and the hard times they lived through.

How many times and how many ways can Planned Parenthood say that it is reducing teen pregnancy with its horrifyingly graphic, immoral sex education when evidence shows quite the contrary to be true?

There are times when it seems that far too many words are uttered about “choice” and far too few about the human being whose life is expunged because it’s “legal” to do so.

The “health care reform” proposal moved a step closer to reality this past weekend when the U.S. Senate approved opening debate on the measure.

Ever since Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, D.D., arrived in the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, he has been an articulate defender of truth.

Every year, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development sponsors a nationwide appeal for the stated purpose of helping the impoverished.