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March 2021

March 12, 2021

Immigrants: They Need Us, and We Need Them

They come because most often they and their families are extremely poor, and they cannot...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

How Has the Pandemic Changed Us? Has It Changed Us Enough?

Unfortunately, I fear that as a collective society the pandemic has not sufficiently awakened us...

December 2020

December 09, 2020

In Advent, We Practice Holy Patience – and a Holy Impatience for Justice

During Advent, it is deeply important for us as committed disciples of our Lord to...

November 2020

November 26, 2020

The Economy of Francis – Both Saint and Pope

The hungry, homeless, unemployed, underemployed, refugees, and all destitute fellow human beings desperately need, and...

November 09, 2020

Voting Out Fascism Is Just the Beginning

There can be no compromise with an ideology that places the demands of the few...

November 02, 2020

Yes, There Is a Place in the Democratic Party for Pro-Life Voters

Faced with the alternative of an administration that has proven itself willing to flout fundamental...

July 2020

July 18, 2020

It Is Clear By Now that We Are Not All In This Together

The world watches in horror as our numbers go up. And the world closes its...

May 2020

May 22, 2020

Today, I Am Ashamed of the United States

How can we call ourselves a “Christian nation” when, instead of standing in collective mourning...

May 15, 2020

What Are We Willing To Sacrifice, To Get Through the Pandemic?

Will we be willing to sacrifice some of the pleasures of our precious “American” way...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Right Wing Leaders Propose Human Sacrifice To Prop Up the One Percent

What people like Dan Patrick and R.R. Reno are proposing is literally human sacrifice. That...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

So What If Jesus Wasn’t Poor or a Refugee?

The corrupt prelates who persecuted the mendicants wanted to water down the radicality of Jesus’s...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Object To Student Loan Forgiveness? This is Neither Ethical, Practical, Nor Christian

The conversation about student loan forgiveness has come around again, and once again we are...

August 2019

August 18, 2019

My Response to the Men Who Think It’s a Sin For Women To Work Outside the Home

So here's what I have to say, ultimately, to the Twitter trad-bros who are trying...

June 2019

June 18, 2019

Got a Problem With Student Loan Forgiveness? You’re Opposing a Venerable Catholic Tradition

Catholics who wish to take a stand against Senator Warren’s plan are free to do...

April 2019

April 27, 2019

David Bentley Hart on Socialism: “Sane and Compassionate Governance”

The policies advanced by leaders such as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while...

July 2018

July 12, 2018

The Pro-Life Movement Has Lost

This is why the movement has lost: it no longer has a moral platform to...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

What Does the Gospel Teach Us About Property and Illegal Immigration?

There's very little sacrifice asked of us to welcome the stranger. We live in a...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

If Alfie Evans Had Been An American Baby

44 million Americans are uninsured right now. My children and I are among these. Being...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Why Supporting Local Agriculture is Pro-Life

We can’t ignore the injustice that’s built into our mass produced food system.

April 07, 2018

Media Bias Against Pro-lifers?

It’s not bias when pro-lifers are doing exactly what the media accuses them of doing

March 2018

March 29, 2018

A Problem With Privilege in Abortion Rhetoric

I wonder whether one day we in rich, spoiled America will look back in horror...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

Trump Is Just A Symptom, Not A Cause

The problem in short, for Epstein and his like, is that Trump takes what they...

February 10, 2018

In Defending Life, Draw the Circle Wide

A true ethic of life means drawing the circle of "what lives are owed protection"...

January 2018

January 20, 2018

My Statement on the 2018 March for Life

I stand for a movement that seeks to protect all life, but also recognizes the...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

It’s Not Just About the Hypocrisy: Representative Tim Murphy, Abortion, and the Problem with Rejecting Consistent Life Ethics

what these men and their supporters represent was never truly pro-life at all

June 2017

June 01, 2017

With the Paris Accord, Listen to our Popes – Not Trump

Why can we not see how our sinfulness mars the very soil on which we...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

What is Happening to Our Universities?

Will Catholic universities step forward and reclaim this tradition which is uniquely our own?

April 2017

April 19, 2017

who’s listening when we talk about abortion?

You see what the woman is running towards. You don’t see what she’s running from.

April 05, 2017

my family did the benedict option before it was cool – and here’s why it doesn’t work

And there’s something touchingly tragic about it: because on a fundamental level, one can see...

March 2017

March 18, 2017

the feast of st. patrick, potato famine, and the consequences of injustice

So if indigenous slaves hadn't been forced to harvest bat poo in Peru, and if...