JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

Sometimes the obvious is not clear to those listening to or reading an item of interest. For example, facts can be presented in such a way that a topic’s flip side is shrouded by glowing words and phrases.

Here we are, at the midpoint of the 40 DAYS FOR LIFE campaign and just after the PRO-LIFE DAY OF SILENT SOLIDARITY, a national day of silent reflection for the babies, which was preceded by PRO LIFE MEMORIAL DAY on October 6. One has to wonder what has gotten into these pro-life Americans!

The news I bring to your attention today is not, to my mind, just another of those heart-wrenching accounts of the ways in which Down syndrome children are annihilated before birth.

fraud: intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right

I guess it is no secret to most that the anti-faith organization, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, becomes wildly apoplectic whenever a religious leader speaks out.

It’s with ever-increasing frequency that I read about things that should be on the front page of America’s newspapers and the lead story on television news programs

I was not going to write a commentary on this subject because, as you probably have guessed by now, I cannot talk about candidates due to the tax status of American Life League and our focus on principle

All Words tells us that an “elephant in the room” is an idiom for “a problem or difficult issue that is very obvious, but is ignored for the convenience or comfort of those involved.”

I am always concerned when public figures who claim to be Catholic make a point of denying Church teaching, or even worse, misrepresenting it for political gain. This is particularly true when the question involves the identity of the preborn child and his inherent right to life.

If you have visited the American Life League web site in the past day, you have seen the video of our own Marie Hahnenberg and know that our annual Pro-Life Memorial Day observance in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. was a tremendous success.

Tom Szyszkiewicz has always been one of my favorite Catholic reporters. While I could not pronounce his last name if you paid me to do it

Today is the day we run our full-page ad in the Washington Times weekly edition. It is a full-color ad in which we pay tribute to the 16 Catholic bishops who have chosen to protect Christ from sacrilege by enforcing Church law, specifically Canon 915.