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November 2019

November 13, 2019

Make Women Slaves Again

For a long time, the open misogyny of so many people in the pro-life movement...

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...

October 2018

October 19, 2018

No, Simcha, Dissent is Not Tantamount to Rape

Simcha Fisher recently published an article comparing dissenting from the Catholic church’s position on things...

October 12, 2018

5 Things I’m Obsessed With (Other Than Power)

Apparently my old friend Austin Ruse has joined the chorus of people who think that...

October 02, 2018

Crossing the Rubicon: Why I Will No Longer Enable the Catholic Hierarchy

A while ago, one of my atheist commenters observed that watching me grapple with my...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

Just Believe Women?

About a week ago, I became aware that someone named Kavanaugh had been accused of...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Is It A Sin to be Scandalized by Abuse?

Yet again, the Church is being rocked by a clerical abuse scandal. And yet again,...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

The Myth of the Self-Made Man

I apparently don’t understand success. The formula for it is not, as I suggested, hard...

June 07, 2018

Privilege Does Not Mean You Are Bad

Alright, so you’re white. And also male. You’re successful, but you’ve worked hard all your...

January 2018

January 24, 2018

Two Things We Mistakenly Believe Are Ours

At the heart of the Church’s social teaching there are two essential insights into the...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

A Modest Proposal: On Rape Prevention

One of the most frustrating things about discussing rape prevention is that there is often...

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...

August 17, 2017

Addicted to Patriarchy: Infallibility IV

I mentioned yesterday that I see the relationship between the Catholic laity and the hierarchy...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Thou Shalt Not Be Gay

It makes my blood boil when people claim that there is no homophobic discrimination in...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

The Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed

Several years ago, I wrote a piece for First Things where I opined that a...

February 01, 2017

Open Wombs, Closed Borders?

There are basically three reasons I know of why a person is likely to be...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

Is Political Correctness Classist?

I've been thinking recently about political correctness, and specifically the way that many people seem...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Brock Turner is Not a Monster

I've been reading a lot of stuff on the internet about the Stanford rapist –...

May 2016

May 28, 2016

The Social Justice Movement’s Modest Proposal

Yesterday, I talked about the failure of the pro-life movement in upholding the sanctity of...

March 2016

March 18, 2016

You’re Not Pro-Life if You’re Not Pro-Child

Today, the back-payment came for my Canada Child Tax Benefit for Malachi, and out of...

March 04, 2016

Does God Want People To Be Unequal?

One of the phrases that I’ve seen tossed around a lot this election cycle is...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Dagnabbit! ‘Dat Pesky Socialist Wabbit!

I've been challenged by a gentleman writing under the name of Dagnabbit to respond to...

February 14, 2016

Render Unto Vader What is Vader’s

There is a comment on my previous post that I have decided to answer in...

February 12, 2016

The Virtue of Socialism

The use of taxes to secure justice for the poor does not deprive people of...

December 2015

December 15, 2015

Into the Vortex: A Young Man Recounts His Experiences at Church Militant

"I was an ardent defender of the Truth, and I viciously attacked anyone who dared...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Buy Nothing

God demands a tithe of time. Material goods, if allowed to do so, will consume...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Breath and Shadow

A CHORUS of RAINDROPS. When on Euphrates' swollen plain First brother struck down brother in...

July 22, 2015

Ills That Need The Knife

JUVENAL. So I got a question for you guys. CATULLUS and GERMANICUS. Yes? JUVENAL. Murder.

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