JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

Our office’s recent media release has created quite a stir about the folks at the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

There’s never been an idea that couldn’t become a millstone around someone’s neck.

The current talk about “common ground” continues to concern me. These days, it pertains to several events that are separate and yet quite similar.

The current debate over health care is one of those scenarios that might play well in a science-fiction thriller, but must not be allowed to play out on the backs and over the dead bodies of the uninformed.

Economic conservatives are worried about the runaway tax-and-spend potential of President Obama’s health-care initiative.

Take, for instance, this quote by Elisabeth Garber-Paul in an article on the rise in sexual activity during this economic recession: “So join the rest of America in this exciting new trend. Save money, stay in, have sex—just don’t make a baby.”

The Catholic Church teaches that “the direct interruption of the generative process already begun, and, above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic reasons

There was a time when institutions bearing a Catholic identity, such as hospitals and clinics, would never have agreed to even the slightest hint of deviating from the Catholic Church’s teachings. That was, I am sad to say, a very long time ago.

Just when the pharmaceutical industry thought the vaccine-autism controversy had been resolved, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee has recommended further study of vaccine safety.

There is no doubt that President Obama’s most valuable political asset is his remarkable charisma—his ability to send the spirit of the nation soaring on the wings of hope and change.

The opposite of health is disease, which, if terminal, results in death. The opposite of care is neglect, or dereliction, which can also result in death.

It has been our observation over the course of the past 11 months or so that Barack Obama is a master of the stage—even when his teleprompter crashes to the floor.