JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

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.

Peggy Loonan, a columnist in Colorado, recently wrote an opinion piece about “anti-abortion hardliners” such as yours truly.

When I was growing up, one of the things my parents taught me, by example and instruction, was never to move off the goal

As a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and as someone who begged its president to correct his statement regarding the nine-year-old Brazilian girl’s abortion

Time and time again, we are called upon to respond to a question average Americans ask: “Why doesn’t the media—conservative or liberal

It’s Friday, which usually means there must be some really bad news out there. Sure enough, what the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did yesterday is about as bad as it can get.

It is always with more than a little trepidation that I begin the task of wading through a papal encyclical. In the case of Caritas in Veritate