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Earnestly Adoring Christ
By Judie Brown Saint Justin Martyr, an early Church father, wrote in 155 AD of the Eucharist: “For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Savior, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word . . . is the flesh...
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...
Minimizing Evil
By Judie Brown America has been confronted with a great deal of evil, especially in recent days, and the national yawn is audible. Even in the case of the aborted babies’ bodies found and then buried, there is no interest in digging to the bottom of this horrific...
A Trace of His Glory
By Judie Brown With just a single sentence, we are immediately in touch with man’s absolute disdain for the human person. The sentence reads: “A couple aborted a healthy preborn baby at six months after learning that the fertility clinic had given them...
Cruelty Denied
On Good Friday we commemorate with great sadness the crucifixion of Christ, King of heaven and earth. To understand the cruelty of the act itself, all one needs to do is think for a moment about the soldiers, the nails driven into the hands and feet of...