By Judie Brown
Having visited Venice and seen the Doge’s Palace, I took a special interest in the new government office that will exist when Trump takes office. The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
In Venice the doge was the “highest official of the republic of Venice for more than 1,000 years.” But the years of this Venetian magistrate are long gone, so what reminded me of that history when I heard of the Trump version? Well, honestly, nothing good.
But then again, the government’s most costly practice is the killing of future citizens of our nation. With more than 24 percent of abortion costs being paid by taxpayers, is it any wonder we are concerned about how the DOGE will address this deadly, costly elimination of our youngest citizens?
To put it in people terms, Americans currently pay for at least 250,000 imposed killings of our brothers and sisters.
This is egregious, particularly when we realize that even one direct killing of an innocent person is too many.
And while the Centers for Disease Control tabulates in excess of six hundred thousand babies intentionally killed annually, we know that the numbers are far greater if one considers the babies chemically killed by the pill and other unseen, unrecorded acts of preborn child killing.
The Venetian doges were pompous to a fault. And perhaps we are seeing a repeat of that historical situation in our nation. Over the years the United States has condoned the killing of countless people, and we have argued in our laws that choice, not the innocents who die, is what we should protect.
The National Library of Medicine has even published articles about reproductive rights. Naturally the government’s official position favors the expectant mother’s right to choose to kill or keep her baby, never recognizing the reality of a child who dies during every abortion.
So when we examine the positions of people who will be responsible for DOGE, we have to ask: What makes it agreeable in this day and age for men to be elevated by their own hubris to positions of decision-making that could, God forbid, result in even more babies dying?
According to LifeSiteNews, Musk “single-handedly funded a mysterious political action committee that promoted Donald Trump’s reelection to pro-abortion voters on the grounds that he would oppose a national abortion ban, a new filing with the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) has revealed.”
And Ramaswamy has publicly fallen into the Trump line of thinking with statements that any decision about the legality of abortion should be up to the states to decide.
Regardless of the new leaders of DOGE, or the historic men who held that role, the one thing that never changes is the love God has for each of His children and the devotion we must persist in having to defend His precious children. The best way for us to do this is to devote ourselves to the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, which gives us the grace to defend the real presence of His babies in utero, in petri dishes, or wherever they may exist.
Venerable Louis of Granada made this very clear, writing:
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter when we are overburdened, the memorial of Jesus Christ, the proof of his love, the most precious precept of his testament, our companion in the pilgrimage of life, the joy sustaining us in our exile, the burning coal kindling the fire of divine love, the instrument of grace, the pledge of eternal bliss and the treasure of Christians.
Lord Jesus, help us persist in focusing the attention of our fellow citizens on the magnificence of Your gift of life, Your divine order of glorious, everlasting joy. That is the only DOGE worthy of Your children’s work on this earth. Amen.