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May 04, 2026

On the Death Penalty, and the Consistent Life Ethic

The discourse is on the death penalty again. My veteran readers know that I am...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

Dustin Higgs’s Execution and the Cycle of American Violence

I regret to tell you that we have to do this one more time....

January 14, 2021

The United States is Executing the Second Disabled Person in 48 Hours

I know that this is exhausting to think about, so soon after the last...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

The Death Penalty is Wrong Because Killing is Wrong

Last night, the United States committed another federal execution. Orlando Hall, a rapist and murderer,...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

A Requiem for a Hundred Thousand

One hundred thousand people are dead. It happened just in the past hour-- we...

May 19, 2020

Norma McCorvey’s “Deathbed Confession” Reveals A Decades-Old Con

When I started blogging, I never planned to blog about the giants of the pro-life...

May 10, 2020

COVID, Sunday Mass, and Sins of Omission

We've all been struggling with the COVID pandemic for months now. People are, understandably, restless....

May 10, 2020

In the Coldest May

We have another freeze warning tonight. It's the kind of cold that only feels bitter...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

It Causes Me To Tremble

I woke up early, which isn't like me. Insomnia is another symptom I...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

A Rose in the Plague Time

The first time I forgot about the coronavirus, was yesterday. That was when I got...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Lent Begins in Winter

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

More on the Death of Alana Chen: In Dialogue with a Saint Thomas Aquinas Parishioner

I need to comment again, at some length, on the horrific story of the life...

December 08, 2019

Caroll Spinney has Died

Today, we're all digesting the sad news that Sesame Street's legendary Caroll Spinney, the...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

The Color of Departed Souls

The leaves have peaked for the year, and the color is going away. Pretty...

October 2019

October 10, 2019

Abby Johnson, Rehumanize, and The Ongoing Scandal

I know I said I'd get away from the topic of Abby Johnson's public...

October 03, 2019

Forty Years of Baby Choice: A Timeline

My veteran readers know that I've been expressing concern concern what Father Frank Pavone...

May 2019

May 17, 2019

For Anyone Struggling with the News This Week

I have many, many things to say about the news of the past week....

May 13, 2019

The Day we Learned School was Dangerous

We got on the bus to go downtown, at the beginning of our school...

April 2019

April 20, 2019

There is Nothing Good about this Friday

There is nothing good about this Friday. There is nothing good about a day...

April 08, 2019

What the Pro-Life Movement Has Taught Me This Week

I grew up being told that the Population Bomb was a Liberal lie. I...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

Suicide, Shootings, and the Powerless Generations

I've learned that a second survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting has...

January 2019

January 27, 2019

What is a Monster?

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. A few...

December 2018

December 23, 2018

O Emmanuel

The O antiphon for December 23rd: O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio Gentium, et...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

Chaos and Conviction in the Neighborhood

I apologize for the recent silence; have been exceptionally sick for a week-- for...

October 21, 2018

The Church Ought Not to be a Torture Test

I don't know how to tell you that you shouldn't mock people in spiritual...

October 08, 2018

The Shadows in Columbus

I think I was in the first grade. It was 1992, and I lived in...

September 2018

September 16, 2018

Who Do You Say That I Am?

Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way...

September 11, 2018

Establishing Shot of a Nightmare

It's that day again. It's the seventeenth anniversary of the bloodiest day on American...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

The Lesson of the Slim White Disc

I went to Adoration yesterday. I didn't feel like praying, but I needed the quiet....

August 12, 2018

No One is a Bicycle: Why we Need a New Pro-Life Movement

The other day I met a former politician from Rhode Island. I know he was...