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Thanksgiving, Lord!
By Judie Brown This week we gather together as families, as fellow Christians, and as neighbors to give thanks for all the blessings we have received. For me personally, this is a bittersweet time of year because nothing about our family would be what it is today without my beloved husband Paul. He has been away from us for four years now, but the memories are overwhelming. Paul loved the...
Life Devoid of Value
By Judie Brown As we approach the somber events commemorated on Good Friday, we are called to reflect on what is happening to the value of a single human life. A few years ago commentator Dave Armstrong reminded us that “there never will be a single human being for...
Skating to Hades
By Judie Brown Years ago, 1977 to be exact, there was a popular Paul Simon song entitled “Slip Slidin’ Away.” The song was a musical testimony to the follies of a man who, try as he may, could not reach his goal because he continually seemed to be going backward. In a...
Our Cultural War on Nature
By Judie Brown Years ago, before affirming life became a political question, it was a way for women to emulate the virtues of the Blessed Mother. That is not to say that women were free of moral challenges, but they did not have the likes of Betty Friedan yacking...
The Procreative Power of God
By Judie Brown The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory.” The procreative act...
Diversity
By Judie Brown In the Sesame Street song from ages ago, we heard these words: “One of these things is not like the others.” It was a simple way of teaching young children that being different is okay. But today this concept has taken on a more chilling connotation....
Teaching Truth to Power
By Judie Brown It is the role of each person who comprehends the unrepeatable miracle of human life to be defenders and educators when the dignity of the human person comes into question or is challenged in any way. When Louisiana senator John Kennedy, for example,...