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Mary, Full of Grace
By Judie Brown The mother of God, the Virgin Mary, is unstained by sin. She is, as Father John Hardon, SJ, explained, “a sign of contradiction because, humanly speaking, it seems contradictory to obtain by yielding; to get by giving.” He continues: Yet that is what Mary teaches us. We gain most when we give most; we grow when we give up; we merit before God when we surrender. You don’t explain...
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...
Taking on the World
By Judie Brown Our current culture is deadly for people of all ages, and yet we persist in our efforts to defend, protect, and nurture human persons. Christ’s words inspire us: “I have told you all this so that you may find peace in me. In the world you will have...
Humankind
By Judie Brown Genesis 5:2 tells us, “He created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and named them humankind.” In recent years, however, this truth has been undermined, denied, and otherwise ignored by human beings who perceive themselves as...
Just the Facts, Ma’am
By Judie Brown Detective Joe Friday’s famous line from Dragnet, “Just the facts, Ma’am,” seems so appropriate when we consider the terrible crush of deception surrounding President Trump’s support for the Biden administration’s position on the deadly abortion pill....