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American Den of Death
By Judie Brown California was once known as literally the land of the fruits and nuts, according to my parents, who knew a great deal about the state that became my family’s home. And it was indeed a state where all sorts of fruits and nuts could be purchased with buyer assurance that they had been locally grown. It was truly an awesome place for a family, but that was nearly 85 years ago, and...
Joe Biden and St. Thomas Aquinas
By Judie Brown St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: “A small error in the beginning leads to a multitude of errors in the end.” This profound truth came to mind when I took note of Joe Biden’s latest ruse. Our president cited St. Thomas as part of his deceptive...
Loathing the Individual Human Person
By Judie Brown To loathe is to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance. This one word pretty much summarizes the attitude of those who cannot stand the possibility that even one preborn child will be protected by law. But beneath the obvious disdain...
Pillaging Truth
By Judie Brown To pillage is to plunder ruthlessly, as in destroying truth with deadly fiction. And when it comes to the truth, these days it seems that the Politico website is at the head of the class. Whether writing about mail-order abortion pills or the latest...
The Middle Way
By Judie Brown The upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has many pro-life people all atwitter. Leaked information aside, there are so many ways the decision might go that it is hard to put your best guess forward. Yet in a recent...
Venom of Disdain
By Judie Brown Venom, a toxin or poison that can kill or maim, can be contracted from a snake bite. But C.S. Lewis reminds us that there are other ways to be poisoned, including the “evil enchantment of worldliness.” Indeed, when anyone properly considers the disdain...
America’s National Cancer
By Judie Brown Human beings are gifted with a conscience. Writing about this human asset, St. John Paul II taught in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth): “Although each individual has a right to be respected in his own journey in search of the...