Dotty Brown
By Dotty Brown
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News When Pope Francis Brought — and Broke Down — Barriers for Philadelphia’s Jews
Sitting in synagogue on Yom Kippur, three days before Pope Francis’s arrival in Philadelphia, I couldn’t help but think about the scene unfolding outside my house. Already, metal crowd-control fences were lining my property right across the street from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where the pope would be sleeping. My little suburban block was in…
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News Pope Francis Makes Surprise Stop To Bless Sculpture Symbolizing Catholic Unity With Jews
Nearly 50 years after the Vatican officially proclaimed Jews free of guilt in the killing of Jesus, Pope Francis made a surprise change to his schedule on the final day of his U.S. tour to convey his own message of respect for the Jewish people. In an unannounced event, the pontiff stopped Sunday to bless…
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Life Queen for a Day at My Daughter’s Wedding
Dotty Brown and her husband walk their daughter down the aisle. Transitions… I feel as if I’m moving through a new one I hadn’t considered before. Recently, my “baby” — the youngest of my three daughters — got married, following in her sisters’ footsteps. It was a moment we had long anticipated, encouraged, hoped for,…
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The Schmooze C. Everett Koop and a Choice Between Lives
Crossposted from UnRetiring Few of us remember the poignant real-life story of surgeon C. Everett Koop and the conjoined twins who shared a single heart. Who would live and who would die? It was a terrible question that plagued the children’s parents, rabbis, and the medical staff at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. On February…
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