Catholic Fire

American Life League president Judie Brown will appear on EWTN’s “The World Over” with Raymond Arroyo to discuss health care reform with Catholic Health Association president Sr. Carol Keehan on Friday, August 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET. When American Life League exposed the Catholic Health Association’s campaign i n support of President Obama’s healthcare plan, Brown and Keehan were thrown into opposite sides of a contentious debate. “Simply put, Catholics cannot support healthcare that includes killing,” Brown said. “The Obama plan includes a mandate for tax-subsidized abortion, euthanasia, contraception, rationed care and sex education. Where is social justice in that? Where is the mercy, love and compassion for the weakest in society?” American Life League exposed the scandal when Catholic Health Association, Catholic Charities and the St. Vincent de Paul Society joined together to support “healthcare reform now.” Their campaign included action alerts to call Congress is support of hea...

I reported on this craziness earlier ... but now a lawsuit has been filed. Michael Savage has filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The Thomas More Law Center , a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced Thursday that it filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The lawsuit claims that her Department’s “Rightwing Extremism Policy,” as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of their political beliefs. Click here to read the complaint filed by the Thomas More Law Center. Napolitano tried to blunt the public furor over the Report by a half-hearted apology to veterans, but she left out of her apology all of the oth...

by Judie Brown In attempting to put a proper face on the ugly situation developing on the campus of Notre Dame University, home of the recent announcement that President Barack Obama would give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree, I fell upon an incredibly wise insight just uttered by Archbishop Charles Chaput. Speaking at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, the archbishop said,We need to stop over-counting our numbers, our influence, our institutions and our resources, because they're not real. We can't talk about following St. Paul and converting our culture until we sober up and get honest about what we've allowed ourselves to become. We need to stop lying to each other, to ourselves and to God by claiming to 'personally oppose' some homicidal evil – but then allowing it to be legal at the same time.When I read those words, it occurred to me that the current president of Notre Dame should have been at that speech, taking notes! Here we...

By Judie Brown Kathleen Sebelius, current governor of Kansas and alleged Catholic, has distinguished herself in many ways. Most disturbing among them is her long-held support for the act of abortion. It is this single attribute that perhaps makes her attractive to President Obama, as he sets his sights on her as his nominee for the post of secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. By the way, those words, "health" and "human services" have a whole lot to do with the defining characteristics of the Sebelius era in Kansas. For example, out of a sincerely held, very deep belief in the jaundiced view that abortion is nothing more than an aspect of reproductive health services, she has gone out of her way to embrace the culture of death. Her opinion, based on her statements and actions, is that every mother should have the right to choose to end the life of her own preborn child. Sebelius has explained that though she is "personally opposed to aborti...

Judie Brown The nomination of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is more solid proof our new president has no concern for the health of Americans. Rather, Obama’s modus operandi has been, and will continue to be, a full-scale attack on the personhood of the weak, disabled and preborn. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s pick to lead the nation’s chief agency for health care, has made no secret of her radical support for the abortion movement. Indeed she has praised, defended and treated to dinner at the governor’s mansion the notorious Dr. George Tiller – set to stand trial for performing illegal late-term abortions. MORE To protest this nomination, sign the petition at Catholics Against Kathleen Sebelius. American Life League also has a petition against HHS Appointment of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius here. Why not sign both? Related Posts on Catholic Fire: New Catholic Website protests Sebelius' Cabinet Nomination It's Official: Sebelius to take post in Obama Cabinet Video Shows Why Sebeliu...

by Judie Brown It has been a very interesting few days. Analyzing the latest presidential escapades is not always as straightforward as one might wish, but one thing has become perfectly clear to me. There is no way that a sound-thinking, upright Christian member of the medical community is going to be able to survive under the Obama onslaught unless at some level, lawmakers or judges see through the dictatorial attitudes of a president who appears to have no respect for anyone’s perspective other than his own. For those who honestly believed the president truly meant what he suggested about being somewhat moderate in his administration’s abortion policies, the following should shake up your granola big time. I am speaking, of course, of the latest Obama administration announcement that ... ( Read More )

Washington, D.C. (17 February 2009) – The following is a statement from Judie Brown, president of American Life League on the Wednesday meeting between U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Pope Benedict XVI. "The only photo-op I hope to see out of Rep. Pelosi's meeting with the Holy Father Wednesday is the House Speaker in the Confessional line. Pelosi's adamant support for abortion and the anti-life agenda of the American left is utterly incompatible with her self-described 'ardent' Catholicism. Pelosi has been defiant toward the admonitions of the American bishops; has misrepresented Catholic teaching on the question of when the human being's life begins and is a rabid supporter of abortifacient contraception. It is our prayer that the words of the Holy Father resound in Pelosi's ears and open her heart to the great evil she is helping inflict on the United States:'How can it be that the most wondrous and sacred human space - the wom...

Washington, DC – Judie Brown, president of American Life League, issued a statement today in response to an interview in which Archbishop Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican's highest court, stated: "There's not a question that a Catholic who publicly, and after admonition, supports pro-abortion legislation is not to receive Holy Communion and is not to be given Holy Communion … This is a law of the universal Church and it should be applied." About the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Burke commented: "I think this argument [that this matter should be decided by the USCCB] too is being used by people who don't want to confront the issue, this whole "wait 'til the Conference decides"...well the Conference has been discussing this since at least 2004. And nothing happens… Individual bishops and priests simply have to do their duty.They have to confront politicians, Catholic politicians, who are s...

"What specifically is it that the "mainstream" media wants from the federal government? I have a feeling I know the answer. They want a policy that basically states that nobody in the healthcare profession who is committed to defending and protecting innocent human persons need apply!" ~ Judie Brown, President of American Life League and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life Read her article A FEDERAL REGULATION VERSUS A MEDIA CIRCUS.

By Judie Brown Every year, at about this time, many Americans make what are commonly known as New Year's resolutions. It is no surprise to any of us mere mortals that most of these resolutions may not last beyond the time it takes to enunciate them. But I think that there are a couple that all of us in the pro-life community could adopt with gusto and keep, regardless of the political atmosphere, cultural meltdown or increasing lack of belief in God. The first is based on the profound words spoken last month by Dominican Father Augustine DiNoia, undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Father DiNoia was lecturing at Rome’s Pontifical North American College, and it is reported that he said the following in his message: No one in his or her right mind will be interested in a faith about which its exponents seem too embarrassed to communicate forthrightly… We have to be convinced that the fullness of the truth and beauty of the message about Jesus Christ is p...

ATTENTION - all concerned parents and medical professionals - Merck needs to hear from you now! Without the separate doses for measles and mumps there will be NO MORAL ALTERNATIVES in the US for these vaccines! Concerned Catholics In December 2008, the Holy See affirmed in Dignitas Personae, that “everyone has the duty to make known their disagreement and to ask that their healthcare system make other types of vaccines available.” The Vatican further stated that “there is a duty to refuse to use such “biological material” even when there is no close connection between the researcher and the actions of those who performed the abortion.” Read the article and the letter we sent to Merck - and let them know how you feel! www.cogforlife.org/merck1208.htm God bless, Debi Vinnedge Children of God for Life H/T: Yvonne Related Information: Judie Brown's column: MERCK MIRED IN MAYHEM

Washington, DC – American Life League president Judie Brown issued the following statement today:" American Life League is grateful to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the release of its new document, 'Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions.' "While we are concerned that the document does not clarify the word 'conception' immediately after the first time it is used, upon reading further, we do appreciate the fact that the Vatican has made it clear that 'conception,' as used in this document, refers to all human beings irrespective of the method of reproduction employed. "We would be remiss if we did not quote from the document to remind our fellow Americans that the entire practice of embryo reduction, based on 'quality control' notions, is indeed a heinous crime and a violation of the rights due to each innocent embryonic child. In Section 21, the document states, From the ethical point of ...

by Judie Brown Recently, I came across an announcement that truly troubled me, not only as a Catholic, but also as a grandmother whose grandchildren will one day be attending college. The news was that on November 11, at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California, legal scholar Douglas Kmiec, also a dissident Catholic, was scheduled to give the 13th annual Newman C. Eberhardt Lecture. Lest we have so quickly forgotten, Kmiec is a "Catholic" who argued for months prior to the election that a Catholic could in good conscience vote for Barack Obama. He did this much to the chagrin of faithful prelates like Archbishop Charles Chaput, persisted right up until Election Day and apparently continues the campaign even now. Kmiec wrote a small tome entitled Can a Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Question about Barack Obama. The book is simply an extension of his many articles on the subject, in which he repeatedly states, as though he were an authority of sound mind, Catho...

Here is an excerpt from Judie Brown's excellent commentary on the election: Recently, in Colorado, as you know, the media assisted organizations such as Planned Parenthood in confusing the public by using innuendo and half-truths to accomplish their goal of defeating the personhood amendment. As attorney and noted pro-life expert John Archibold commented in the Colorado Steamboat Pilot & Today newspaper , The first paragraph of your news story re Amendment 48 states that fertilized eggs won't be given the same rights as human beings – this implies that there are two distinct categories – fertilized eggs and human beings. But there are not two categories since fertilized eggs are a subcategory of human beings just as are zygotes, embryos, fetuses, infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults are. The Colorado Supreme Court, prior to the legalization of abortion in 1967, said that a child includes the unborn from the moment of conception. Amendment 48 merely wanted to...

REVISITING ‘THE PILL KILLS’ DAY! By Judie Brown I am sorry that our Protest the Pill Day: The Pill Kills Babies project is officially at an end. As we focused attention on the devastating Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court decision of June 7, 1965, we had so many wonderful opportunities to teach people how the birth control pill works. We were encouraged by the pro-life activism all across America and are confident that we made pro-life history! In case you missed it, there is an excellent video news report describing why we pursued this project, located on our home page . On June 6, American Life League hosted a national press conference at which we featured experts from the medical and pharmacy professions presenting the facts in great detail and with all sorts of scientific information! The video clips of that historic event are online, in case you want to check out the action . What is most interesting about the fallout from that press conference and the pro-life activism tha...

'Saving those Damned Catholics' the new book by Catholic American Life League President Judie Brown is out in print. I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of this book. LifesiteNews.Com has interviewed Mrs. Brown and here's how she describes her new book. LifeSiteNews.com: What is the book about and what is the general idea? Brown: The book is an expression of my concern, as a Catholic- that, after waiting for 30 some years for the Bishops to do something to end abortion - it has come to my attention that historically they will not do anything and millions of souls have been lost in the process - which is where the title came from. Nobody knows how many people have gone to their uncomfortable reward because of the lack of the bishops to stand up and teach and preach the truth which is what they are called to do. So, what I did is write a book based on case histories of people that I have encountered over the last 34 years and the various terrible experiences that th...