JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

In what can only be described as a devastating decision, an Irish judge ruled this week that “frozen embryos do not enjoy the same constitutional right to life as those carried in the womb.”

“Now, a word to Catholics who would follow the dictates of their consciences instead of the dictates of the Vatican. Congratulations, you’re Protestant. Practice your singing,” Florence King once wrote in National Review.

In the November 15 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statement, “Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper: On Preparing to Receive Christ Worthily in the Eucharist,”

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has finally released the long promised teaching statement on the Sacrament of Holy Communion. While we awaited this document with great hope, our expectations were very far from being fulfilled.

The proponents of euthanasia/physician-assisted-suicide are getting a bit overanxious in Oregon these days.

When will the deception ever stop? That is what I asked myself when I read this weekend’s Washignton Times editorial which states

A newsreport out of the Czech Republic should set off warning bells throughout the pro-life community.

South Dakota lawmakers, at least a couple of them, must be suffering from severe disorientation as they reflect on post election results.

While reading one of the hundreds of post-election commentaries masquearding as news stories I came upon a coment from a Missouri voter that really put the entire election into perspective.

The wee small hours of the morning caught many of us stunned by the results in South Dakota’s abortion referendum, and anxiety ridden over what might happen in Missouri’s human embryonic stem cell balloting.

Having seen the commentaries of not a few people on the outcome of the election and what it means, I am left wondering if most writers are simply in denial.

When I read about the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Britain putting forth a proposal to kill newborn babies I was shocked. How could this be, I asked myself.