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August 2020

August 31, 2020

Not Everything is Political

Today I was alarmed to find myself needing write this. So let me explain something, again,...

August 27, 2020

Quit Feeding the Rhetoric of “Fear”

From the Archdiocese of Atlanta, emphasis mine: Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., encourages those who...

August 22, 2020

IVG and Poly-Parenting vs. Adoption and Step-Parenting

"IVG" is in vitro gametogenesis, an emerging technology that allows the creation of babies (baby mice,...

August 13, 2020

Cultivating the Virtue of Perseverance in Prayer

Fr. Matthew Schneider did a great job covering the recent case of a priest who...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

Education vs. Childcare vs. Public Goods

One of the early outcries as COVID-19 raged through nursing homes was, "The way we...

July 01, 2020

Speaking of Clerical Corruption . . .

Church Militant is not my usual haunt, but they deserve credit for publicizing the case...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

Spark Truth: The Life-Changing Magic of Reasoning Up

In prepping my first debate class for teenagers, I instituted a revolutionary rule: No participant...

June 23, 2020

The Innocence of St. Junípero Serra

As statues are being torn down or vandalized around the country, the Catholic Church is...

June 05, 2020

Quit Making Racism the Young Man’s Burden

Today I saw an otherwise lovely, if a tad anodyne, church statement on recent events,...

April 2020

April 02, 2020

Public Health Logic vs. #MasksForAll

I'm not an epidemiologist, but I do sometimes teach logic. So check out this bit...

March 2020

March 19, 2020

At Least Half of American Adults are High-Risk for COVID-19 Death

Friends are circulating this article from Bloomberg, which for some reason is supposed to be...

March 15, 2020

Common Sense Diagnoses

I'm not a physician and I'm not an epidemiologist, but I do sometimes teach logic....

March 09, 2020

Driving Off the Cliff with Your Seatbelt On

The selective caution of American public health officials is a tragicomedy. If you're on a...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

Racist vs. Regal

I was appalled to see this defense of police-sponsored racist harassment by John McWhorter writing...

February 11, 2020

The 2020 Elections, as Clarified by Lunch and a Manslaughter Trial

So today I ate lunch today at a local Trump campaign meeting, an unexpected encounter...

January 2020

January 11, 2020

Request for Contributions: Effective Communication on Parish Access for You, a Person with a Disability

Hey everyone, I am looking for help, quickly. My awesome editor of the new book...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Is There Any Hope for People Like You and Joe Biden?

Here's a curious thing about judging-not: In my heavily-Catholic corner of social media, there were...

October 21, 2019

Idol-Tossing, Yay or Nay? It’s Not that Complicated, Sheesh.

Let's see: There might or might not have been a pagan idol given a place...

October 14, 2019

What if a Saint Was Gay?

As I write, the usual suspects are circulating conjecture about a newly-canonized saint: Maybe this person...

May 2019

May 15, 2019

Need Your Help: Stories of Equal Access

I need your help with getting a door unlocked. I'm a parishioner (and at last...

August 2018

August 02, 2018

Solved: The Case of the Disappearing Young Adults

I have often wondered why something so simple as getting young adults engaged in parish...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

McCarrick, Gayness, and Humanae Vitae

I have seen surprisingly little homophobia in the McCarrick scandals, but then again I'm selective...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

What Happens When We Abandon Subsidiarity #AlfieEvans

Subsidiarity is the organizing principle that a matter should be handled by the lowest level of...

March 2018

March 14, 2018

People Who Shouldn’t Be Educating Children

One more to file under "This is not a gun blog, but . . ."...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

Government Oversight and Preventing Child Abuse

One of the knee-jerk reactions to the Turpin family child abuse case is to call...

December 2017

December 06, 2017

When Religious Toleration Goes Out of Style

If you are feeling penitential, you can read the transcript of the Supreme Court oral...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Doubt, Demoralization, and the Company You Keep

More and more of my Catholic friends are struggling to stay Catholic. They are demoralized...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

My #MeToo Compendium

During the time I've been offline attending to other obligations the #MeToo campaign hit full...

September 2017

September 24, 2017

When Your Class Is So Bad You Have to Apologize to Other Teachers

Over at the Conspiracy, I tell the story of my most spectacular teaching failure ever....

September 12, 2017

Gay Rights Activists Send Death Threats to Scientists – Yikes!

From that bastion of conservatism The Washington Post comes reports of gay rights activists sending death...