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The Right to Life
By Judie Brown There appear to be an increasing number of people who cannot sort out the difference between respecting the right to life and respecting what is known as personal autonomy. When our Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, they could not possibly have known that the right to life endowed to each person by God would one day become a question of politics rather than a...
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America’s Reproductive Assault Weapons
By Judie Brown The Incredible Shrinking Woman was a 1981 movie about a housewife who grows smaller after being exposed to chemicals found in household products and cosmetics. It was a fictional comedy, but what is happening today as women ingest a different type of...
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...