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The Trouble with Truth
By Judie Brown The latest catch phrase is It’s complicated. When those words are uttered, obfuscation is imminent. You see, when folks do not want to face facts, they create stories that support their perspective, and all of a sudden the truth is erased. To know how to defend truth, we must know how to define it. According to Webster, truth means “agreement with fact or reality.” Yet in today’s...
Hell on Earth?
By Judie Brown When you see a spider on the floor, or perhaps a rat in your garden, what do you do about it? Pests come and go because that is the way God designed the world. But would you ever consider birth control for rats instead of extermination? This is not a...
The Demons of Blasphemy and Scandal
By Judie Brown The Catechism of Saint Pius X states: “Blasphemy is a horrible sin which consists in words or acts of contempt or malediction against God, the Blessed Virgin, the Saints, or sacred things.” The latest example of this would be the shocking...
Domestic Tranquility
By Judie Brown The Preamble to the United States Constitution says: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure...
Investing in the Family
By Judie Brown While investing in the stock market is really not a novel idea, investing in marriage and family is most definitely unique in our day and age. But as we know, the family is the cornerstone of a stable society. This is so because, as Pope John Paul II...
Remove the Plank
By Judie Brown Michael Pakaluk wrote of the Republican party decision regarding its pro-life posture, “Some say—I say—that in removing this plank, the Republican Party dissolved itself, and that that fact will become clear over time.” His words called to mind Christ’s...
Jim Sedlak and Matthew 10
By Judie Brown One of the most memorable themes in the many talks that the late Jim Sedlak gave over the years was his citation of Matthew 10 and his explanation about how those teachings informed his pro-life, anti-Planned-Parenthood philosophy. For all the years I...