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Life-Affirming Influencers Rock!
By Judie Brown We consider anyone who defends life, stands up for life, or lives a pro-life life to be an influencer. The thing about such people—and there are many—is that their presence in our world influences others without fanfare and without a self-awareness that they are doing so. These people live a reflection of God’s love in a world that needs more of the Lord’s influencers and less of...
Joe Biden and St. Thomas Aquinas
By Judie Brown St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: “A small error in the beginning leads to a multitude of errors in the end.” This profound truth came to mind when I took note of Joe Biden’s latest ruse. Our president cited St. Thomas as part of his deceptive...
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...