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Blurring Right and Wrong
By Judie Brown Aristotle once wrote, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Indeed, those words reflect the commonsense attitude of someone who has learned the difference between good and evil and who proceeds to act on it rather than resort to the popular theory that if something feels right to you it is acceptable, regardless of whether it...
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Cardinal Dolan’s Epic Fail
By Judie Brown The topic of much conversation lately has been the recent funeral that took place in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The funeral has led to heated discussion. Cardinal Dolan, who presides over the Archdiocese of New York, said that nobody...
Deadly Business
By Judie Brown “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” That positive message is one that I can recall my mother attributing to Norman Vincent Peale,...
Our Disfigured Republic
By Judie Brown American Catholics continue to react to the controversial document from the Vatican dealing with blessings given to couples in irregular relationships, and homosexual couples in particular. One wonders why this is so, since Pope Francis has already...
A Deadly Valentine
By Judie Brown We just celebrated Valentine’s Day—one of the most romantic days of the year. It is also the feast day of Saint Valentine, about whom very little is known. It is said that he took risks to marry couples during a time when Christians were being...
Mainstreaming Wickedness
By Judie Brown The challenges to those of us who love God grow ever greater with the passing of each day. There are times when Saint Paul’s words to the Thessalonians seem much more appropriate to our own era than his. When he addressed the fact of wickedness, he...
Virginity Is Not a Myth!
By Judie Brown Planned Parenthood recently posted a sex education video on its social media platforms claiming that virginity is a “completely made-up concept” designed to control and shame people, mainly women. According to Planned Parenthood, a virgin is “someone...