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Jumbled Priorities
By Judie Brown Recent headlines provoked me to ask a simple question: Why are Canadian geese more important than people? This came to mind when we learned about the Alabama community of Edgewater, where some residents were upset that homeowner association leadership wanted to euthanize migrating Canadian geese. Juxtapose that with New York governor Kathy Hochul’s support for assisted suicide,...
Intelligence Is a Gift
By Judie Brown In the Gospel of John, Christ prepared for His Ascension by praying to God, His Father, regarding His disciples, “May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was...
A Supreme Disappointment
By Judie Brown The United States Supreme Court is the last bastion of justice when it comes to legal questions up for debate. But as a mere body of human beings, these nine individuals are flawed because they are human. Thus, many of their decisions are equally...
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...
Hello, God! Mankind Needs You
By Judie Brown When we hear the hymn “Christ Hath a Garden,” we feel thankful that we are planted in His grace. While this is a particularly remarkable blessing, it is also an enormous responsibility. As His children, His messengers, and His voice in the wilderness,...
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...
The Mind of God
By Judie Brown A recent personal encounter with Truth came my way by virtue of a profound statement from Bishop Emeritus Michael Pfeifer, Diocese of San Angelo: Life is indeed in God’s mind sacred from conception, and as it is a unique act of creation of a new person,...