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BAND-AIDs on a Murder Problem
By Judie Brown A BAND-AID is a temporary covering for a small injury that requires time to heal. The most well-known type of this injury is the skinned knee on a small child, whose mother affixes a BAND-AID after kissing the “owie.” But BAND-AIDs cannot fix all the pains we experience; that requires much more work. Once we grasp this concept, we can turn to threats to life, such as how to stop...
Here a Baby, There a Baby
By Judie Brown The children’s rhyme “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” enumerates the animals and their sounds. It is all about living, breathing farm animals, and I recall how much my children enjoyed listening to it and singing along when they were young. But my joy at...
The Body of Christ
By Judie Brown On June 7, Catholics will reverence the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Perhaps in anticipation of this feast, Pope Leo XIV wrote in Magnifica Humanitas: In the Eucharist we find a visible manifestation of the reality that we “are the Church...
Intelligence Is a Gift
By Judie Brown In the Gospel of John, Christ prepared for His Ascension by praying to God, His Father, regarding His disciples, “May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was...
A Supreme Disappointment
By Judie Brown The United States Supreme Court is the last bastion of justice when it comes to legal questions up for debate. But as a mere body of human beings, these nine individuals are flawed because they are human. Thus, many of their decisions are equally...
The Hound of Heaven
By Judie Brown Yesterday was the eighty-eighth birthday of my dearly departed husband Paul, who died in his eighty-third year of his life. But our family chooses to celebrate the happy days of his life rather than dwell on the saddest day of my life, the day of his...
Hello, God! Mankind Needs You
By Judie Brown When we hear the hymn “Christ Hath a Garden,” we feel thankful that we are planted in His grace. While this is a particularly remarkable blessing, it is also an enormous responsibility. As His children, His messengers, and His voice in the wilderness,...