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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...

May 11, 2019

To My Child’s Pro-Choice Friend

Dear Young Person I've Watched Grow Up, I want to tell you today about a...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

The Implications of Not Using the Death Penalty

In all the excitement of every bishop in the world's credibility imploding in one fell...

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 31, 2018

Sexual Harassment at Catholic University?

Catholic University has taken back the honorary degree it gave McCarrick. Let's use some critical...

July 28, 2018

McCarrick and the Banality of Dissent

As long as we're asking people to come clean about what they knew and didn't:...

July 25, 2018

McCarrick, Gayness, and Humanae Vitae

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

June 2018

June 23, 2018

Promiscuous vs. Predatory: How to Tell the Difference

In response to the McCarrick case, Fr. Longenecker, with whom I generally agree, writes something...

June 22, 2018

Soldiers for Christ Hiding Under the Bed

Bishops and bloggers live at opposite ends of the talking jobs. Bishops are charged with...

June 21, 2018

Whataboutism Answered

There's a group in my region that provides help to women feeling they have no...

June 19, 2018

Confession – Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe

In light of Australia's new law requiring priests to break the seal of confession, a...

June 18, 2018

What Kind of Crime is Illegal Immigration?

In the present debate over what to do with illegal immigrants and their children, there...

May 2018

May 21, 2018

Who’s Protected by the Current Irish Abortion Laws?

One of the myths about abortion laws -- lately the Irish amendment, but it could...

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 24, 2018

When There’s No Easy Narrative on Gun Violence

Several friends shared this sad but inspiring story of a heroic French police officer who...

March 14, 2018

People Who Shouldn’t Be Educating Children

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

March 01, 2018

What’s the Difference Between Abortion and Capital Murder?

A seventeen year old girl in Texas gave birth at home alone, stabbed the baby,...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Doing a Post-Mortem on Gun Violence Stats

So this was my online experience of the most recent school shooting: One of my...

February 09, 2018

BDSM for Kids @NBCOlympics

Last night the kids were up watching figure skating when the new 50 Shades movie...

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 21, 2017

Should Cardinal Law Have Received the Funeral That He Did?

A friend posed the question many are asking: Why on earth did Cardinal Law receive...

December 15, 2017

What’s Your Life Worth to You?

My husband once had a business trip to a notoriously crime-ridden city. The client he...

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...

December 04, 2017

On the Senate’s Tax Plan to Repeal the Obamacare Mandate

The GOP's Senate version of this year's tax bill apparently repeals the mandate to purchase...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

My #MeToo Compendium

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

October 06, 2017

The Elder Abuse – Catalonia – Gun Rights Connection

Shortly after a I posted yesterday, a friend shared this article from The New Yorker about...

October 05, 2017

Death and Dread – Links & Comments

My parents live in Las Vegas, I have good friends from Las Vegas, and it...

September 2017

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...

September 06, 2017

“Price Gouging” and Catholic Social Teaching

Up at the Register, I'm talking about why price gouging is wrong: Catholics don’t reject free market...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Can a Catholic Affirm the Nashville Statement?

The Nashville Statement is a set of 14 affirmations and denials concerning Christianity and human...