JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

The news about the Obama administration’s action on human embryonic stem cell research was not surprising, but a bit otherworldly.

There’s been such a hodgepodge of things Catholic in the news this past week, that it could become mind-boggling if one did not sort it all out, or at least make an effort.

Those who have followed the work of American Life League over the past five years, in particular, realize that we have taken up the cause of encouraging Catholic bishops to enforce Church Law, specifically Canon 915.

Occasionally I read something by one of my fellow pro-lifers that is so clever, insightful and wise that I feel compelled to share it with those who have become accustomed to daily commentary from the Catholic pro-life perspective.

America is witnessing a Catholic identity meltdown and there have been a series of explanations for this over the course of the past several months.

Kathleen Sebelius, current governor of Kansas and alleged Catholic, has distinguished herself in many ways. Most disturbing among them is her long-held support for the act of abortion.

It has been a very interesting few days. Analyzing the latest presidential escapades is not always as straightforward as one might wish

It is perpetually true that when a genuine threat to the status quo becomes more than an idea in someone’s imagination, those who are most threatened by innovation become overcome with anxiety from which flows a whole lot of garbage.

Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed

It should have come as a surprise to no one that on the very day that President Obama is addressing the State of the Union, the Alan Guttmacher Institute has released a new “study” which, lo and behold, calls for more funding for family planning programs.

Recently a friend advised me that St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital in London, Ontario, Canada, was providing something called “early induction of labor” for expectant mothers based on physician claims, such as the one voiced 24 years ago, that if the preborn child was not delivered early, the mother would die.

In Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin and its allies are moving forward with the establishment of an abortion facility where second trimester abortions will occur.