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A Spoonful of Murder
By Judie Brown If you recall Mary Poppins’ lovely song “A Spoonful of Sugar,” you know that it is wise advice to sweeten the taste buds when using sour medicine. A similar concept is used today but in a tragic manner. I was reminded of this when I learned that some pro-life folks are actually working to urge President-Elect Trump to restrict the killing of the innocent preborn children in our...
The ‘Nones’ Need Christ, Not Sorrow and Death
By Judie Brown Somehow in the depths of our being we all know the sorrow that Jonathon Van Maren wrote about a few days ago when he told us: “Abortion does not only end the lives of children. It often coarsens and hardens those who make that choice, the blood of the...
Bishops, Dead Babies, and Lost Souls
By Judie Brown Bishop Joseph Strickland spoke up at the mid-year meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Strickland’s remarks, as seen on video, were humble but clear. He pointed out that consistently defending life from beginning to end is the...
Gillibrand and AOC: Catholic Predators (Shrews)
By Judie Brown Hearing Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talking about abortion reminds me of the harpy character in Greek mythology. A harpy is a “foul, malign creature” also defined by Webster’s as a “predatory person” or a “shrewish woman.” Pro-death Catholics like...
Joe Biden: Satan’s Secret Weapon
By Judie Brown Several media outlets have reported that Joe Biden has flipped his position on abortion. But what does that mean, and why should Catholics care? We can say without hesitation that Biden was never pro-life by any stretch of the imagination. While at one...
Brave Catholic Bishops and the Cultural Crisis
By Judie Brown It’s the environment, stupid! At least that’s what the headlines are screaming. They argue that, if you aren’t concerned with clean air, global warming, population, and all the things that threaten being “green,” you are not a responsible citizen...
Babies and Bananas
By Judie Brown Catholic high school teacher Stephen Snyder recently wrote: “Bananas exist and do so perfectly independently of your knowledge or opinion of them. The extent to which your idea of a banana matches the reality of a banana is the extent to which you know...