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January 2018

January 05, 2018

Sexual Moral Relativism from the Religious Right?

This is not, unfortunately, the first time I have witnessed the claim that Moore’s misconduct...

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

October 03, 2017

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: Reasonable Legislation in Defense of Life

We need to have humane laws such as this in place

September 2017

September 08, 2017

“Fine Folks” and the Banality of Evil

The degeneration into evil happens for the most trivial reasons, in a bourgeois middle-class manner,...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Why the Pro-Life Movement Needs to Be Rebuilt

In recent weeks, I have observed an alarming uptick in tolerance for racism among Catholic...

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 31, 2017

On Selective Outrage: Kathy Griffin, Trump, Obama, and the Right

I thought her display disturbing, and her apology insincere.

May 29, 2017

When the Right Supports the Burning of the Flag

But there are some things no power, state or federal, has a right to decree.

May 18, 2017

When You Say You’re Not a Racist

White people hate being accused of racism. When topics of racism come up, among White...

May 15, 2017

the cultural ambiguity in our honoring of mothers

What is amiss is that we are not honoring women in their many, varied capabilities...

May 04, 2017

how not to be pro-life: a quick overview

Tell parents of disabled children to start a GoFundMe, or maybe a bake sale! It's...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

my other problem with the “Benedict Option”

If students are being proselytized and shielded from any alternative views, they will not acquire...

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 13, 2017

this is not the God of vengeance

His disciples must really not have been paying attention to half his teachings, if they...

April 10, 2017

Jesus was not an alpha

unless you want to define and redefine and twist the concept until it has no...

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...

April 04, 2017

don’t like all the negativity in the blogosphere? there’s a cure for that

Why aren’t you talking about the lives of the Metaphysical Poets, or the Catacombs of...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

The Ever-Moving Goalpost of Eliminating Abortion Supply

What is emerging is a right-wing narrative that favors eugenics, nativism, social Darwinism, and white...

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...

March 10, 2017

H.R. 1313: part of the trend of eugenics

And would people of Jewish descent - or other genetically at-risk demographics - be especially...

March 08, 2017

things not to say, if you actually respect women

If you're passing around memes mocking contemporary feminists, you are the type who would have...

March 03, 2017

the defense of the unborn, and the demands of justice

If you wake up one day with a violinist attached to you it is unjust,...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Carnivale and Social Justice

The purpose of ritual licence, in which everything but violence is permitted, and no guilt...

February 16, 2017

how can we counter the anti-semitism of right-wing reactionaries?

This is what I think of at the corollary to the Banality of Evil: the...

February 10, 2017

ten things we feminists wish you knew about us

First of all: there are many feminisms. What you learn about what feminist, or one...

February 06, 2017

“Trump and the conservatives” – a mistake and a misnomer

But the thing is, Trump is not a conservative. He's not even wobbling on the...

February 04, 2017

are you a conservative? are you sure?

So, are you a conservative? If so, I tip my hat to you (imagine me...

January 2017

January 22, 2017

whether you’re marching for life or not, you can always donate for justice (too)

Reprinted from the New Pro Life page There was a lot of discussion in our...

January 20, 2017

“america first” is not a catholic option

The Good Samaritan is now seen as a bleeding heart SJW; the priest who passed...

January 16, 2017

women’s march drops pro-life group – what’s a pro-life feminist to do?

We should not be excluded from this march. We have risked personal and professional relationships...