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Out of This World
By Judie Brown The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” It continues, “The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the people of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ...
Loathing the Individual Human Person
By Judie Brown To loathe is to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance. This one word pretty much summarizes the attitude of those who cannot stand the possibility that even one preborn child will be protected by law. But beneath the obvious disdain...
Pillaging Truth
By Judie Brown To pillage is to plunder ruthlessly, as in destroying truth with deadly fiction. And when it comes to the truth, these days it seems that the Politico website is at the head of the class. Whether writing about mail-order abortion pills or the latest...
The Middle Way
By Judie Brown The upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has many pro-life people all atwitter. Leaked information aside, there are so many ways the decision might go that it is hard to put your best guess forward. Yet in a recent...
Venom of Disdain
By Judie Brown Venom, a toxin or poison that can kill or maim, can be contracted from a snake bite. But C.S. Lewis reminds us that there are other ways to be poisoned, including the “evil enchantment of worldliness.” Indeed, when anyone properly considers the disdain...
America’s National Cancer
By Judie Brown Human beings are gifted with a conscience. Writing about this human asset, St. John Paul II taught in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth): “Although each individual has a right to be respected in his own journey in search of the...
Does Abortion Reduce Welfare Costs?
By Brian Clowes, PhD Supporters of abortion tend to lack foresight and misunderstand human nature. These defects inevitably lead to many cases of the “law of unintended consequences.” One example of this lack of foresight is the claim that when the government pays for...