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The Valley of the Fallen
By Judie Brown Some years ago my beloved husband Paul and I were in Spain and visited the Valley of the Fallen. We had gone there as part of a tour we took throughout that nation, but at that monument we were overwhelmed with awe and could not help but reflect on the grief and suffering represented at this memorial to Spain’s Civil War dead. It is also the burial place of controversial...
Blood-Drenched “Common Ground”
The current talk about “common ground” continues to concern me. These days, it pertains to several events that are separate and yet quite similar.
Synchronized Stealth: Obama’s “Department Of Death With Dignity”!
The current debate over health care is one of those scenarios that might play well in a science-fiction thriller, but must not be allowed to play out on the backs and over the dead bodies of the uninformed.
“Obamacare”: Fast Track to Economic Suicide
Economic conservatives are worried about the runaway tax-and-spend potential of President Obama’s health-care initiative.
Sex: Good, Babies: Bad
Take, for instance, this quote by Elisabeth Garber-Paul in an article on the rise in sexual activity during this economic recession: “So join the rest of America in this exciting new trend. Save money, stay in, have sex—just don’t make a baby.”
Church Teaching and Human Reproduction
The Catholic Church teaches that “the direct interruption of the generative process already begun, and, above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic reasons
Catholic Health Care’s Demise: Is It Imminent?
There was a time when institutions bearing a Catholic identity, such as hospitals and clinics, would never have agreed to even the slightest hint of deviating from the Catholic Church’s teachings. That was, I am sad to say, a very long time ago.