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The Absence of Good
By Judie Brown The Catholic dictionary defines evil as “the privation of a good that should be present.” It continues, “[Evil] is the lack of a good that essentially belongs to a nature; the absence of a good that is natural and due to a being. Evil is therefore the absence of what ought to be there.” There are so many examples of this situation in America today that we hardly know where to...
Cowardly Remedies
By Judie Brown When seeking relief from life’s challenges, it seems that more and more folks are drawn to the easy way—the secular balm that society offers. This occurs when human beings fail to recognize the all-healing, all-saving power of God. And today that occurs...
Infinite Dignity
By Judie Brown The Vatican’s Declaration on Human Dignity states: “This dignity of every human being can be understood as ‘infinite’ (dignitas infinita), as Pope St. John Paul II affirmed in a meeting for people living with various limitations or disabilities. He...
Think Abortion, Say Child, Stop the Nightmare
By Judie Brown Planned Parenthood has an ugly way of helping even the cold of heart think about the reality of every abortion. In a recent headline, for example, we read, “Planned Parenthood Botched Abortion So Badly the Baby Was Still Inside the Mother’s Womb.” Let...
The Treasure in Our Midst
By Judie Brown The book of Sirach (6:14) states, “A loyal friend is a powerful defense: whoever finds one has indeed found a treasure.” This quote could not have come on a more memorable day for me, a woman who is now 81 years of age and who has a myriad of loyal...
Murder by Mercy
By Judie Brown In his book On Suicide, British philosopher David Hume argued, “We’re no more valuable than oysters, and because of that, then killing a human being is not all that big [of] a deal, really.” Hume wrote those words more than 200 years ago, but this...
Die Baby Die
By Judie Brown If this title shocks you because of the implication that someone is salivating over the coming death of a baby, it may interest you to know that every single exception to abortion is an expression of this battle cry. This is so because when a lawmaker...