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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 creatures—to be born. Those of you whose hearts are filled with suffering and sorrow: your adoration will bear fruit in hope. Relentless...
The World Offers Death
By Judie Brown Watching my fellow human beings grow increasingly indifferent to violence and pain is difficult to observe. But where there is a human challenge of this magnitude, my gut tells me there is also a solution. Abortion, for example, is the deadliest assault...
Barbarism or Civility? America Must Choose
By Judie Brown The violence of the past two weeks has absorbed the nation and left some numb, others angry, others devastated, and still others with a penchant to capitalize over the bodies of the dead. This capitalizing over dead bodies is called politics, and that...
Mass Shootings Are Our Fault. Own It!
By Hugh Brown, with an intro by Judie Brown These past several days have served up the ugly underbelly of many of this nation’s people for all to see. Instead of weeping with the families of victims, praying for the heroes who stood in harm’s way to stop villains, and...
Safe Killing Is Their Cry
By Judie Brown In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll wrote: “‘Curiouser and Curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).” Oh my, if Alice were here now observing the habits of the...
Suppressing People of Faith
By Judie Brown Jesus said to His disciples: “They will expel you from the synagogues, and indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing a holy service to God. They will do these things because they have never known either the Father or...
Covert Practices Threaten the Elderly and Infirm
By Judie Brown Sometimes when we hear conversations about medically treating the elderly and the dying, we miss key words because they sound so innocent. Words like palliative care, “unable to digest food,” and “refusing to eat” can be understood to mean that nothing...