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May 2020

May 19, 2020

R.R. Reno Does the Right Thing

Quick update on my post from the other day: R.R. Reno issued a formal apology...

May 13, 2020

Unmasking False Dichotomies

As I mentioned the other day, I & mine are doing fine this coronatide, other...

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 23, 2020

Flattening the Curve vs. Flattening the Economy

In response to a popular piece on the economic devastation of "flattening the curve" my...

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 10, 2020

I’m No Socialist But . . .

. . . Yasha Mounk at The Atlantic is correct: When the coronavirus first spread to South...

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...

March 06, 2020

Alternatives to School Closures

As the US starts feeling the impact of our still-unmeasured coronavirus situation, public health authorities...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

7QT: Catholic Social Teaching Kicks in During Quarantine, and After

Let's talk about the economics of epidemics. By the time we've hit all seven takes...

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...

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...

September 2019

September 06, 2019

Cool Gift Ideas for Budding Artists and Art Fans

Longtime residents of St. Blogs may remember the days of the Crescat. Katrina Ebersole is...

September 05, 2019

Best Practices in Evangelization = Unintended Lesson in Homelessness

Here's an article on a fantastic initiative in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, in which dedicated...

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...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

Dear Gay Catholic Priests,

I've been reading about your plight in the New York Times. So let's go ahead and clear...

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 25, 2018

McCarrick, Gayness, and Humanae Vitae

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

July 02, 2018

How Lay Catholics Can Help Stomp Out Clerical Corruption

Rod Dreher has a McCarrick follow-up post sharing e-mails from priests who have contacted him...

June 2018

June 24, 2018

A New Basilica, and Bishop Who Has Things He Needs to Say

This morning I had the pleasure of being present when Bishop Robert Gugliemone announced the...

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 21, 2018

Whataboutism Answered

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

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...

June 13, 2018

How Ideological Purity Destroys Real Purity

The latest in the Ideological Purity Wars is the public shaming and repentance of Twitter...

June 01, 2018

Can a Protestant Church Get “Too Catholic”?

South Carolina is basically one big small town, so the odds are high that I...

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...

April 11, 2018

How Easy it is to Watch Facebook’s Demise

A couple days ago a friend of mine, and then a second one, announced on...