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The Tragedy of Vengeance
By Judie Brown The Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses vengeance thusly: Anger is a desire for revenge. “To desire vengeance in order to do evil to someone who should be punished is illicit,” but it is praiseworthy to impose restitution “to correct vices and maintain justice.” If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely...
How Low Can You Go?
By Judie Brown Eucharistic pilgrimages are part of the lives of many Catholics in our world today. It is a public way of testifying to the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, raising awareness in communities, and publicly glorifying God. So when we learned that...
Buzzards on the Dole
By Judie Brown The buzzard is a contemptible bird that preys on others for his food and for his entertainment. Webster also defines buzzard as a “contemptible or rapacious person.” In more ways than I can enumerate here, Planned Parenthood’s minions remind us of...
Love Deficit
By Judie Brown How did mankind become gobsmacked with the penchant to control fertility? Since when is the object of the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act nothing but a leftover from the days when respect for human beings meant something? It seems to...
Lipstick on a Toxic Pig
By Judie Brown Historically, the term lipstick on a pig refers to making superficial changes to a product to make it more appealing, even though that thing is fundamentally subpar. This is a form of marketing deception, and it is a contradiction to the tenet that...
Abortion Oxymoron Cannot Stand
By Judie Brown Looking beyond the landscape of pro-life media, we find a world of detestation, fabrication, and downright hypocrisy. We see this all around us and most recently with a female member of Congress who equates the act of aborting a child with justice. If...
Grief
By Judie Brown In Isaiah we read: He had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their...