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Angels and Predators
By Judie Brown Yesterday, we celebrated the feast day of our Guardian Angels. As Catholics, we believe that our Guardian Angel is always with us; that means that we are never really alone. We learned as children that our Guardian Angel is there to provide support in our daily life and to remind us that God is always present. These beautiful teachings are affirmed by the Catechism of the Catholic...
A Vatican Gambit
By Judie Brown The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “has as its duty the promotion and safeguarding of Catholic faith and morals, and is currently competent to address the delict of sexual abuse of minors. The Congregation advises a diocesan bishop or...
Singing the O Antiphons
By Judie Brown I don’t know about you, but every time we arrive at the week before Christmas and begin reading or singing the O Antiphons, I am left with two thoughts. The first is: I love these short prayers, but the second is, why now? This year I decided to do some...
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
By Judie Brown When you see a ghoulish headline within days of celebrating the birth of Christ, it is most certainly distressing. And yet there it is: “UK Scientists Can’t Wait to Get Their Hands on Thousands of Frozen Human Embryos.” So while this winter melody...
A Cautionary Tale of Woe
By Judie Brown The mainstreaming of chemical methods to control fertility has been so successful that these days some can even find what they think they need to contaminate their bodies in vending machines. Such is the case for Columbia University and others in the NY...
Why Is There So Much Evil in the World?
By Judie Brown As very young children we learned that there really is a devil. We might have imagined him as a figure dressed in red with a long tail and a pitchfork, but the fact is he was once an angel—until he defied God. Since that day, Satan has been spreading...
The Dignity of Each Person
By Judie Brown Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. When Pope Pius IX proclaimed this feast day, he wrote: “The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the...