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September 2015

September 21, 2015

Why I Love Presenting for Family Honor

This week while the executive director of Family Honor is up at the World Meeting...

September 18, 2015

Should Catholic Hospitals Sterilize Their Patients?

The answer is no, and neither should any other kind of hospital. In the news...

August 2015

August 30, 2015

Pro-Life, Married, and Contracepting: Is There a Problem?

In light of the recent Planned Parenthood videos, I've been thinking about a group of...

August 03, 2015

Family Honor – Family-Centered Chastity Education – Q&A and Online Course Info

Three follow-ups re: Family Honor: I had some questions about Family Honor that I'd like to...

August 01, 2015

Around These Parts, Every Week is NFP Awareness Week

So I spent NFP Awareness Week cleaning my house. Not just ordinary cleaning, but epic,...

July 2015

July 13, 2015

XY Motherhood: What do Recent IVF Cases in the News Tell Us? – Updated

UPDATE: For a detailed treatment of the question of intersex persons and the possibility of...

July 09, 2015

Mercy That Isn’t: More Teachers Being Thrown Under the Bus to Cover for Dissenting Administrators

H/T to Deacon Greg Kandra for pointing out the most recent case of a Catholic...

July 08, 2015

Will Suffering Make Your Marriage Better or Worse?

Suffering is called "suffering" because it's horrible. The amount of horror can vary from low-grade...

July 06, 2015

Is Abstinence Hard on a Marriage?

NFP Awareness Week is around the corner, and in certain quarters bloggers are already expressing...

July 01, 2015

10 Things Christian Kids Need to Prepare for an Uncertain Future

In a private conversation Elizabeth Scalia posed a question, and I'm going to paraphrase it wildly:...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Three Signs It’s a Sexual Abuse Cover-Up and Not Just an Innocent Misunderstanding

In yesterday's installment in this series on preventing and stopping sexual abuse, I created three...

June 16, 2015

Phone Before You’re Sure: Why Stopping Sexual Abuse Requires Early Police Involvement

Yesterday I wrote this, and you might be wondering why: You can talk to an...

June 15, 2015

How to Idiot Proof Your Parish and Diocese Against the Sexual Abuse Crisis

The idiots in question are ordinary people like yourself, busy, overwhelmed with responsibilities, always trying...

June 13, 2015

Transvestites and Conservative Christians Meet Minds at the Cult of Prettiness

Being pretty has never come naturally to me. I like the concept in theory, but...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Marriage is Not a Purchase, Your Spouse is Not Your Slave

Unclear on the concept is abounding these days. Michelle Arnold shared the link to this...

May 19, 2015

Unclear on the Concept, Teachers Sexting Edition

A friend passed on this article, about a public high school coach who texted her...

February 2015

February 07, 2015

50 Shades of Arousal Disorders: BDSM and the Moral Life

If you browse among the purveyors of sex toys, which you most emphatically should not...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

For the Love of Rabbits, Have Another Baby Already

I wasn't going to comment on the Pope's rabbit talk until I saw Dr. Greg...

January 07, 2015

Scantily Clad Teenage Dancer Friends on Facebook

From the inbox, a question re: Discussing Modesty from a friend who said he'd be...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Catholic School Principal Learns $2 Million Catechism Lesson

The IVF case that generated as much heat as light earlier this month has been...

December 24, 2014

Something Beautiful for Christmas: Marriage, Faith & Alzheimer’s by Larry Peterson

Up at Catholic Writers Guild today, Larry Peterson is stealing the show with his beautiful essay...

December 09, 2014

Are You Smarter than a Notre Dame Theologian? Episode 2, IVF Edition

Tom McDonald pointed me to this article, co-authored by Joel Baden and Candida Moss -- the...

December 09, 2014

PSA: 100% of Condom Failures Occur During those “Fertile Days”

The Atlantic reports on the increased use of fertility-awareness methods of family planning, especially...

December 03, 2014

Finding Modest Clothes for Hard-to-Fit Teens and Tweens + my Compendium of Modesty Chat

At CatholicMom.com this week, we continue the conversation about modesty by getting into the ugly...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

Gay and Catholic: What’s Not to Love?

Eve Tushnet's new book Gay and Catholic is this month's Patheos book club book, so you...

November 07, 2014

Adultery is Not the Only Option: Five Things You Can Do to Keep Your Vows Intact

Deacon Greg Kandra writes about a recent NY Times piece on priests who forsake their...

November 05, 2014

You know you’ve done *something* right when . . .

. . . We're in the truck, and the middle-schooler makes some remark to me...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

#Synod14 – Prostitute Nation and a Jar of Perfume

If you want to understand the clerical food fight portion of this month's Synod on...

October 09, 2014

What California Consent Teaches Us About Women’s Needs

There's some exasperated amusement in St. Blogs over the new California laws concerning sexual consent...

October 07, 2014

Women Demystified: To Love Her is to Tell Her How Beautiful She Is

My daughter is in middle school, and I enjoy going clothes shopping with her. How...