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The Hound of Heaven
By Judie Brown Yesterday was the eighty-eighth birthday of my dearly departed husband Paul, who died in his eighty-third year of his life. But our family chooses to celebrate the happy days of his life rather than dwell on the saddest day of my life, the day of his death. You see, my husband was a living testimony to the patience, love, and mercy of God. While he spent a lot of time deriding my...
Man Your Stations! The Struggle Persists!
By Judie Brown We defenders of life are a resilient team. We pull no punches in our commitment to defend and protect the vulnerable. So why is it that not everyone sees the truth of the battle as clearly as we do? There are perhaps as many reasons for this as there...
Forever Yours
By Judie Brown Paul and Judie Brown celebrated their wedding vows fifty-eight years ago today. Though Paul has moved on in accord with the Lord’s timetable, I am, as the Helen Reddy song explains, “left to carry on.” But as I have found over the intervening four...
A Christmas Story
By Judie Brown As pro-life Americans, we strive to help create a cultural condition in which expectant mothers can comfortably give birth to their babies, giving each of them the opportunity to write their life story as they grow and mature in the way God intends. We...
Come Lord Jesus!
By Judie Brown Catholic Exchange encourages us to reflect: O Root of Jesse’s stem, sign of God’s love for all his people: come to save us without delay! The third O Antiphon [prayed today] calls us very specifically to remember that the Messiah, the Chosen One of God,...
Poison Pills
By Judie Brown Illinois governor JB Pritzker has given a new meaning to the famous Theodore Seuss Geisel tale How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Pritzker has doubled down on his dedication to assuring Illinois women that access to the abortion pill is among his top...
Ego Versus Truth
By Judie Brown Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once said, “Far better it is for you to say: ‘I am a sinner,’ than to say: ‘I have no need of religion.’ The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.” He truly understood the human condition, even...