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July 2026

July 31, 2026

AI Detection and the Sin of Slander

In today's publishing news, author Jerry Falade had a massive ($2 million massive) publishing deal...

June 2025

June 22, 2025

Why MAiD Is An Elitist Insult

This week it struck me just how deeply offensive is the term "Medical Aid in...

June 10, 2025

Medical Gaslighting and Assisted Suicide

I have a playlist called "Medical Gaslighting" that is for unwinding after particularly stupid doctors'...

May 2025

May 10, 2025

What’s in the Encyclical that Inspired Pope Leo’s Name?

I was thrilled to see that Pope Leo XIV is indeed a Rerum Novarum guy, which...

April 2025

April 05, 2025

What’s The Problem With Embryo Genetic Screening?

There's been growing publicity about using genetic screening of embryos as a way to avoid...

November 2024

November 08, 2024

Should the Catholic Church Be Involved in Politics?

Saw a curious poll on Twitter asking: Should the Catholic Church stay out of politics?...

July 2024

July 16, 2024

Should Catholic Candidates Be Held to Higher Standards?

Now that we've got Catholic candidates on both presidential tickets, partisans on both sides are...

April 2024

April 23, 2024

How are Ownership and Stewardship Different?

It's no surprise that I didn't agree with everything in Rachel Gross's article "Women in...

December 2023

December 27, 2023

Legislative Posturing with the CA Gender Neutral Toy Bill

Take a look at the actual text of California's Assembly Bill 1084, the one about...

August 2023

August 29, 2023

What’s Going on with the French Ban on Abayas in Public Schools?

H/T to Jonathan Turley for the heads up on the new ban on abayas in...

May 2023

May 03, 2023

Girls Who Do Boy Things

From a conversation this evening: Your daughter who likes to do "boy" things will be...

April 2023

April 23, 2023

Something Deeper than a Boycott

There reaches a point where you lose your patience with being mocked. With the latest...

March 2023

March 18, 2023

The Cause-of-Death Equivocation Fallacy

Today we're looking at a particularly abhorrent fallacy I ran across this morning, and no,...

December 2022

December 10, 2022

Serious Answers to ‘Why the Far Right is Fixated on Drag Queens’

Sometimes The Atlantic runs thoughtfully-researched articles from varying points of view, so I was curious to...

December 02, 2022

A Movie Not to Miss: Devotion

Last month my movie-night girl and I went to see Top Gun: Maverick at the second-run...

November 2022

November 21, 2022

Resisting the Urge to Politicize Criminal Violence

Yesterday I shared on social media a legal-opinion piece on a highly contentious social issue....

November 16, 2022

When “Medical Assistance in Dying” Comes After You

Canada's "Medical Assistance in Dying" program is in the disability news as "mental illness" has...

October 2022

October 26, 2022

Could the Pope Be Black?

This week I volunteered to answer a question posed to the Catholic Channel writers: Could...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

NPR Media Disconnect with Real Life, Hurricane Edition

This morning while my kid was driving across town in an approaching hurricane to go...

September 09, 2022

Her Majesty’s Final Inkblot Test

Something that astonished me, but shouldn't have, is just how divided Twitter has been over...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

The Climate of Racial Suspicion

I want to comment on the video circulating now about the Black pastor who was...

August 10, 2022

July-August Updates + Follow-up on that Dorm Story

Been awhile, huh? Sheesh, Jen. Okay, here's what's been going on since I last updated...

July 2022

July 14, 2022

Gaslighting 101, Transgender College Roommates Edition

My daughter's college housing application (small red-state public college) had some great questions on it...

May 2022

May 28, 2022

What is “Scandal”?

If you haven't seen it already, Gloria Purvis has an excellent interview with Archbishop Cordileone...

May 19, 2022

Legalized Suicide is a Trap

At First Things, Wesley J. Smith summarizes the research on assisted suicide and suicide contagion:...

May 04, 2022

Abortion to Save the Life of the Mother?

The most compelling question in favor of abortion is, "What about to save the life...

May 01, 2022

Free Speech is . . . Free

I'm cracking up at the assertion that we somehow need a government agency, with a...

April 2022

April 29, 2022

Twitter Fears?

I'm completely mystified concerning what it is people fear if too much freedom-of-speech should come...

March 2022

March 23, 2022

Gender Stereotypes in a Nutshell (Or a Lego Box)

For various reasons, a girl I love dearly is very anxious about her driving test....

March 16, 2022

Dismembering Womanhood

Confession time: In daily life the pronoun thing is off my radar. I live in...