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Persons Versus Whatever!
By Judie Brown Reading this title and recalling your child’s response to a loving admonition with the word “whatever!” gives you a sense of where I am going in this commentary. On the one hand, we have the facts, or in the case of parents, the rules, and on the other hand we have the Wild West. Or we could say, order versus chaos. No matter how you want to characterize respect for family life in...
Contra Mundum
By Judie Brown Contra mundum means to stand against the world and/or in defiance of popular opinion. One of the most beloved Catholic saints, Athanasius, embodies the meaning of that Latin phrase and perhaps most importantly represents the position we take when we...
Sterile Days
By Judie Brown The era in which we live is not friendly to fertility, to children, or to the aging. It seems that the more control the human species gains over itself, the more it wants. And as the saying goes, nothing good can come from that. The American Society for...
Beelzebul and Newspeak
By Judie Brown According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Beelzebul is an evil spirit. Matthew 10:25-26 teaches: It is enough for disciple to grow to be like teacher, and slave like master. If they have called the master of the house “Beelzebul,” how much more the...
Courage
By Judie Brown For Catholics, the sacrament of confirmation is a wonderful source of the increase and deepening of the graces we receive at baptism. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that confirmation “unites us more firmly to Christ,” “increases the gifts...
The Miracle of Nine Months
By Judie Brown Today marks the first day on our journey toward the celebration of the birth of Christ, which occurs nine months from today. But there are other momentous events that require nine months, including—and most especially—the gestational age of a preborn...
In Praise of Christian Morality
By Judie Brown We are disgusted by everything Planned Parenthood does, and its most recent effort to shut down its competition drips of wanton decadence. Apparently, the abortion behemoth does not like the competition it is receiving from online, do-it-yourself...