JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

Three cheers for Father Joe Kannampuzha and Father Bill Slight! These two Texas priests are about the business of doing something to end abortion.

When we are children, our parents instruct us about life. Why the grass is green. How to shop for groceries. Why we have to pay taxes.

Many of us who are veterans in the pro-life movement understand the demeaning nature of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and the underlying philosophy which suggests that men and women are equal in every way. And I do mean every way!

I am so excited by the recent activities that have taken place in the Archdiocese of New York where faithful Catholics have been pulling out all the stops in their quest to encourage Cardinal Edward Egan to make it clear to Congressman John Hall

For Catholics and many other Christians the world over, March 25, the traditional Feast of the Annunciation, has been a day to celebrate the silent beginning of the life of Jesus Christ as a member of the human race.

Well, there they go again! Everytime Planned Parenthood launches another project, it winds up sounding nice but rendering preborn children at risk of death.

It was rather disturbing but not surprising to read the recent news reports about the director of the National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni.

In a surprise announcement, Governor Matt Blunt announced that he was cutting off the remainder of the $27,000 provided to Planned Parenthood of Soutwest Missouri.

Colorado’s Catholic Governor Bill Ritter has reiterated his support for a proposal to provide $400,000 to Planned Parenthood and its allies. Ritter claims the $400,000 will be used to prevent unwanted pregnancies, not end them.

Here it is important to consider what the Synod Fathers described as eucharistic consistency, a quality which our lives are objectively called to embody.

It has always amazed me to watch the pandering that goes on as men and women find the power of the presidency so alluring that they can no longer resist the temptation to run.

Over the years we have often equated the act of abortion with the ultimate act of child abuse.