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January 2015

January 22, 2015

When the Romans Call You to Task, It’s Time for Sackcloth and Ashes

Reminder that today is a day of prayer and penance. Why, you ask? Because any...

January 21, 2015

Satan Ups His Game: Supreme Court Declines to Protect Secrecy of Sacramental Confessions

Bad news for human souls: The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal...

January 19, 2015

Racism in the American South Today

In 1988 I moved to a small town in South Carolina, not far from where...

January 17, 2015

The 2nd Commandment is Like It: The US Bishops Face Their Boko Haram

In thinking about the massacres in Nigeria, my train of thought ran like this: How...

January 07, 2015

Gay Marriage & Employment in the Archdiocese of Miami

Kathy Schiffer reports that the Archbishop of Miami has laid out his response to the...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

Diocese Pays for IVF, Does $2 Million Penance

In my comments yesterday, I neglected to fully rake the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend...

December 16, 2014

Death by Bad Reasoning: Depressed Mothers Deserve Treatment Not Bereavement

In a mortifying follow-on to our discussion of why we mustn't do evil in an...

December 11, 2014

IVF, Torture, and Other Hot Moral Topics: Do the Ends Justify the Means?

The topic of ends-vs.-means has been circulating a bunch lately. Are you allowed to do...

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 07, 2014

To Make Things Beautiful is to Make Yourself Human

In time for the Advent Wreath link-up at CatholicMom.com, my daughter put together this for...

November 2014

November 22, 2014

In Favor of Incompetent Housewives

Your must-read column for today is Calah Alexander's essay on what it's like being...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

ISIS and Just Warfare: Is Now the Time for Men of Good Will to Intervene?

To join the discussion about Rise of ISIS, a Threat We Cannot Ignore, or...

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 02, 2014

Waffle Syndrome and the Betrayal of Barb Webb

Kathy Schiffer has been covering the story of the firing of Barb Webb, a teacher...

October 01, 2014

St. Therese Chocolate Update – Free Shipping through 10/14 at Equal Exchange

You can count on me for news you can use. In this case, free shipping...

October 01, 2014

The Feast of Small Things with Great Drama + My Favorite Calendar

It's the feast of St. Therese, and I have a serious post coming up some...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

Greed, Human Suffering, and Catholic Social Teaching – Links Worth Your Time

Linking around on human rights & Catholic social teaching: Brandon @ Siris debunks a few...

September 10, 2014

What Happens if Sacramental Confession Ceases to be Secret?

Why are some secrets worth dying for? The Jesuit Post blog has an excellent piece...

August 2014

August 06, 2014

Charlotte, NC Missionaries of the Poor Benefit Concert – The Messiah August 9th

A head's up from Mrs. Curley: Hello Everyone, I have been asked by The Missionaries Of...

July 2014

July 01, 2014

And about that Freedom of Religion Thing . . . – UPDATED

Update: Pia de Solenni reports on the situation in Iraq, where the fruits of religious...

July 01, 2014

Hobby Lobby and the War on Women’s Intelligence

Of all the reactions to the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby Case, Sam...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Modesty as the Language of Mutual Respect

"I just hate it when people tell me what to wear." That's the open admission...

June 25, 2014

Three Reasons Not to Own a Gun, and a Fourth I’ll Concede

Please recall that prudential decisions involving firearms are a matter on which Catholics are free...

June 20, 2014

Quick Links – Corrections on Guns & Tuam

Two links, unrelated, that deserve your attention: 1. The Associated Press issued a correction on...

June 20, 2014

Fortnight for Freedom Begins Tomorrow – What Have You Been Writing?

Over at the Catholic Writers Guild, there's an open thread for posting your existing body...

June 20, 2014

The Protection of the Innocent and the Decision to Kill

Follow-up to yesterday's post, in which I did not really answer Frank Weather's argument against...

June 18, 2014

Three Easy Steps Towards US Health Care Reform

Rebecca Frech writes about the shopping-around method for saving on health care costs here. We...

June 09, 2014

Why Opposition to Same Sex Unions is Utterly Unlike Racism

I'm overdue on writing this post, long since promised to a reader. Just FYI lest...

June 04, 2014

Evil is Easy – updated twice

Fresh reports of horror out of Ireland, these far grimmer than what I had seen...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Mandatory Reading: Frank Weathers on Forced Sterilizations in the US. Not the long ago.

Remember way long ago at the first of the month, when I wrote on eugenics...