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Mary, Full of Grace
By Judie Brown The mother of God, the Virgin Mary, is unstained by sin. She is, as Father John Hardon, SJ, explained, “a sign of contradiction because, humanly speaking, it seems contradictory to obtain by yielding; to get by giving.” He continues: Yet that is what Mary teaches us. We gain most when we give most; we grow when we give up; we merit before God when we surrender. You don’t explain...
Incrementally Yours
By Judie Brown Incremental: gradual, phased, piecemeal This word and its derivatives suggest slow but steady movement of some sort including, according to many, efforts to end the killing of innocent babies. Alexandra DeSanctis opines that while pro-life people work...
Deadly Con Games
By Judie Brown Masking the actual intentions of those who promote medical aid in dying becomes very easy in an era when nobody wants to recognize the value in suffering for Christ and with Him. One Catholic writer opines, “Worldly people are miserable when they have...
Moral Traffic Jam
By Judie Brown Webster says a traffic jam is “a situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly.” If we juxtapose moral principles—the Ten Commandments—with these impediments, we can look at today’s cultural chaos as...
Abortion Is a Lie
By Judie Brown “Abortion is a lie” is a statement that was made in 1981 during a pro-life political action speech that my husband Paul was giving in Washington, DC. He was explaining how easily abortion had been mainstreamed into our society because of the language of...
Pregnancy: Blessing or Disease?
By Judie Brown We have spent decades working to help our brothers and sisters discern the simple fact that when a man and a woman procreate a child, that human being is as deserving of life as her parents. It seems simple enough, but as we know, rhetorical...
Deadly Clever
By Judie Brown Consider the crushing evil in our midst and you might become faint of heart. But if you agree with Saint Vincent de Paul that “the most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility,” you are aware that no matter how wicked the ideology, grace...