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June 2019

June 25, 2019

Get Behind Me, Tony Esolen: Stop Making Marriage a Sadist’s Playground

Usually I avoid reading Crisis magazine because I think it’s editorial policy is quite literally...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

8 Ways Catholics May Enable Domestic Abuse

In the few weeks since I started to blog about my experiences in an abusive...

March 06, 2019

Sexual Coercion and Spousal Rape: What the Church Needs To Do

It was after the birth of my sixth child, my family had taken my other...

March 03, 2019

PSA: NFP is Not Compatible With Alcoholism or Abuse

“No wonder she hates NFP so much,” the woman wrote. “NFP won’t work with an...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Fault on His Side: Addiction and Culpability Pt 2

One of the things that made it difficult for me to end my relationship with...

February 25, 2019

Fault on My Side: How Alcoholism and Abuse Warp Culpability

One of the commenters on my previous post suggested that I should make my next...

February 12, 2019

Enabling Abusers: On Divorce and Remarriage

About a year and a half ago, my older children came to me and told...

April 2018

April 02, 2018

My Baby’s Keeper? NFP and Postpartum Depression

Recently, I blogged about the existence of social conditions which make it more difficult for...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Mass Without Children

A couple of weeks ago, I actually got to Mass without kids. I had the...

March 11, 2018

Breastfeeding in Public and Women’s Equality

Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Kelda Roys produced an ad in which she can be seen breastfeeding...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Baby It’s Cold in Phase 2: On Chastity Culture and Consent

It’s that time of year again – the annual season of arguing about whether “Baby...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

Nightmare on Estrogen Street: Frequently Unanswered Questions about NFP Chapter 1

Why NFP and Why not ABC? I want to approach this in terms of my...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Do We Really Need Another Book About NFP?

A little over a year ago, I posted on my blog that I was thinking...

October 12, 2017

Frequently Unanswered Questions About Natural Family Planning

I've had various comments, here and on FaceBook, that basically involve folks asking questions or...

October 11, 2017

That Long Awaited NFP Book

I've been promising forever to write a book about NFP. It got massively derailed a...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

The Alpha-Male Heresy

What is it about current right-wing Catholic culture that makes it acceptable for a man...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Poverty Is Not What Austin Ruse Wants You to Think It Is

The poor of America are living large off the public purse: they own plasma TVs...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

A Painfully Familiar Reason for Using NFP

So it's NFP awareness week, and nothing will do a woman more good in the...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

Call No Parent Happy ’til They’re Dead

Every Catholic parent wants to know: how do you raise perfect kids who will remain...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Is NFP Marriage Building?

One of the great mysteries of NFP literature is the claim that natural family planning...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

The Measure of a Life: In Memory of My Sister

Last week was the 10th anniversary of my sister Kristen's death. I wrote a piece...

January 16, 2017

The Art of Being Overwhelmed

A lot of you are probably aware of the “spoon theory” of chronic illness. For...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

Tradition Unbound – Part II

Last time on Catholic Authenticity, we were talking about development of doctrine, specifically in reference...

December 01, 2016

Tradition Unbound: How the Pope Changed The Church’s Theology of Marriage

The controversy over the treatment of communion for the divorced and remarried in Amoris Leatitia...

December 01, 2016

In My Greek City State…

We have a game at our house that we occasionally play as part of our...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

Dear Rich People: Please Keep Giving Us Your Junk

It's nearing Christmas time, and an article from Aleteia is making the rounds again –...

November 12, 2016

An Elaborate Live Action Role Playing Game

I mentioned recently that my best friend came to visit, and that we put on...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

Frequently Unanswered Questions About NFP

Eve Tushnet has been twisting my arm a bit to try to get me to...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Legitimate Therapeutic Means: Can Catholics Use the Pill?

It's NFP awareness week. So let's talk about the Pill. Specifically, I want to talk...

July 20, 2016

My Gay Albatross: What To Do When Your Kid Comes Out Queer?

I want to touch on a delicate subject, one that I write about frequently in...

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