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By Judie Brown Today commemorates the feast of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of God. The feast day came about when “Pope Pius XII confirmed this belief about the Virgin Mary as the perennial teaching of the Church. . . . He defined it formally as a dogma of Catholic faith in 1950, invoking… Read More »The Assumption of Our Lady

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By Susan Ciancio This week, as we celebrate Mary’s assumption into heaven, we cannot help but think back and ponder her “yes” to God at the Annunciation. The Assumption could only have come because of Mary’s yes to the angel Gabriel and to God for the rest of her life. Her yes serves as an… Read More »Mary’s ‘Yes’ Teaches Us to Follow God’s Commandments

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By Judie Brown In the commentary “5 Ways to Help Your Child Become a Faith-Filled and Pro-Life Superhero,” Susan Ciancio struck gold, not just for young people but for you and me. Expanding on this theme, I would like to invite the reader of this commentary to look around at the world in which you… Read More »Be a Pro-Life Superhero!

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This week, Judie discusses the abortion restrictions in Idaho and the fact that many doctors have left the state because they cannot kill babies.

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By Judie Brown Just when you thought we had seen it all, Idaho is now witnessing an exodus from its borders. No, the potatoes are not moving, but the baby killers are. They do not like the state law that they argue bans abortion. But there is something in these news reports that troubles us… Read More »Murders and Potatoes

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By Susan Ciancio TV, radio, and action movies illustrate the fact that superheroes have special powers, can fly, are incredibly strong, or can even read minds. But did you know that pro-life superheroes also have special powers? While there are many amazing people in the pro-life sector today, including our own Judie Brown, we want… Read More »5 Ways to Help Your Child Become a Faith-Filled and Pro-Life Superhero

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As impending funding shortages plague Planned Parenthood.

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By Judie Brown In a recent homily, Cardinal Robert Sarah told parishioners, Adoration of God will never disappoint us. It was the patient and silent adoration of Saint Anne that allowed Mary, the mother of the Savior—the most beautiful, pure and holy of all creatures—to be born. Those of you whose hearts are filled with… Read More »A Call to Holiness

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By Father Shenan J. Boquet Few encyclicals in the history of the Church have caused more controversy than Humanae vitae, published on July 25, 1968 by St. Paul VI. The central purpose of Humanae vitae is easily summarized and is well-known by many. In brief, it reiterates the long-standing Catholic and Christian belief in God’s… Read More »Humanae Vitae Today

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This week, Judie explains that we are designed by God to follow Him and to avoid that which offends Him.

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By Judie Brown    In his Catechesis on the Angels, Saint John Paul II taught: The Church confesses her faith in the guardian angels, venerating them in the liturgy with an appropriate feast and recommending recourse to their protection by frequent prayer, as in the invocation “Angel of God.” This prayer seems to draw on the… Read More »Of Angels and Beasts

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By Susan Ciancio On July 31, we celebrate the feast of a man whose life drastically changed because of a cannonball, a man whose life is proof that God helps us turn tragedies into blessings, if we are open to His assistance. St. Ignatius of Loyola was born in Spain in 1491. As a child… Read More »St. Ignatius of Loyola Charges Us to ‘Set the World Aflame’ with Love of God

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By Susan Ciancio I recently heard someone say that he didn’t like what the Catholic Church teaches about abortion and same-sex marriage, so he would never want to be Catholic. That got me to thinking. Are we supposed to conform God to our wants and desires or conform our lives to His laws? It’s the… Read More »The Consequences of Playing with the Devil: A Warning from St. Peter Chrysologus

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By Judie Brown There has been an ongoing debate about when a person is really, truly dead for as long as I have been involved in defending life. This is so for a panoply of reasons, best summed up by Professor Robert Spaemann, who wrote, “Scrutinizing the existence of the symptoms of death as perceived… Read More »When Alive Is Dead

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By Judie Brown In April of last year, family law attorney Carrie Patterson told a court, “As embryos have a potential for human life, they are given special respect.” Ten months later, Fairfax Circuit Court judge Dontaè L. Bugg wrote in an opinion letter, “It is obvious that these two human embryos, if implanted and… Read More »As a Matter of Fact

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In this week’s commentary, Judie asks how people can forget that we all began as human embryos.

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1. Five Virginia delegates have partnered with Planned Parenthood to support and encourage abortion.

2. With looming budget cuts from government funding, Planned Parenthood is fighting back and claiming these cuts will cause low-income women to suffer.

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By Susan Ciancio On July 24, we celebrate the Feast of St. Charbel Makhlouf, a Lebanese monk and priest of the Maronite order who was born Youssef Zaroun Maklouf on May 8, 1828. When Youssef was just three years old, his father died, so he was raised by his mother and his paternal uncle. Both… Read More »The Heart of St. Charbel Draws Us Closer to the Heart of Christ

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By Judie Brown Last year we wrote about Peanut the squirrel and the public outcry that ensued when this animal was euthanized. Thinking the story had run its course, we moved on. But we really discounted the furor that continues to be ginned up over this little critter. A recent article explained that Mark Longo,… Read More »Totally Squirrelly!

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By Father Shenan J. Boquet “God’s mercy calls us to protect every life, especially those society overlooks — the child yet to be born and the elderly nearing their journey’s end — because each bears Christ’s face… No one is exempted from striving to ensure respect for the dignity of every person.” ― Pope Leo… Read More »Culture of Death Advances in UK

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