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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 crosses, and good Christians are miserable when they have none. The Christian lives in the midst of crosses, as the fish lives in...
Follies
By Judie Brown Saint Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1:18, “The message of the cross is folly for those who are on the way to ruin, but for those of us who are on the road to salvation it is the power of God.” We put this in the proper perspective by realizing that while...
The Assumption of Our Lady
By Judie Brown Today commemorates the feast of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of God. The feast day came about when “Pope Pius XII confirmed this belief about the Virgin Mary as the perennial teaching of the Church. . . . He defined it formally as a dogma of...
Be a Pro-Life Superhero!
By Judie Brown In the commentary “5 Ways to Help Your Child Become a Faith-Filled and Pro-Life Superhero,” Susan Ciancio struck gold, not just for young people but for you and me. Expanding on this theme, I would like to invite the reader of this commentary to look...
Murders and Potatoes
By Judie Brown Just when you thought we had seen it all, Idaho is now witnessing an exodus from its borders. No, the potatoes are not moving, but the baby killers are. They do not like the state law that they argue bans abortion. But there is something in these news...
A Call to Holiness
By Judie Brown In a recent homily, Cardinal Robert Sarah told parishioners, Adoration of God will never disappoint us. It was the patient and silent adoration of Saint Anne that allowed Mary, the mother of the Savior—the most beautiful, pure and holy of all...
Of Angels and Beasts
By Judie Brown In his Catechesis on the Angels, Saint John Paul II taught: The Church confesses her faith in the guardian angels, venerating them in the liturgy with an appropriate feast and recommending recourse to their protection by frequent...