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R Is for Radiant
By Judie Brown Recently Meghan Schrader, a defender of the rights of people with disabilities, came to my attention because of a two-part article she wrote on the fallout of using the word “retarded” to define certain members of the human family. According to Merriam-Webster, the word retarded is “dated, now offensive: affected by intellectual disability: INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED.”...
Cardinal Dolan’s Epic Fail
By Judie Brown The topic of much conversation lately has been the recent funeral that took place in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The funeral has led to heated discussion. Cardinal Dolan, who presides over the Archdiocese of New York, said that nobody...
Deadly Business
By Judie Brown “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” That positive message is one that I can recall my mother attributing to Norman Vincent Peale,...
Our Disfigured Republic
By Judie Brown American Catholics continue to react to the controversial document from the Vatican dealing with blessings given to couples in irregular relationships, and homosexual couples in particular. One wonders why this is so, since Pope Francis has already...
A Deadly Valentine
By Judie Brown We just celebrated Valentine’s Day—one of the most romantic days of the year. It is also the feast day of Saint Valentine, about whom very little is known. It is said that he took risks to marry couples during a time when Christians were being...
Mainstreaming Wickedness
By Judie Brown The challenges to those of us who love God grow ever greater with the passing of each day. There are times when Saint Paul’s words to the Thessalonians seem much more appropriate to our own era than his. When he addressed the fact of wickedness, he...
Virginity Is Not a Myth!
By Judie Brown Planned Parenthood recently posted a sex education video on its social media platforms claiming that virginity is a “completely made-up concept” designed to control and shame people, mainly women. According to Planned Parenthood, a virgin is “someone...