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2026-06-06T17:43:32-06:00

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Extinction Through Compassion: Down Syndrome’s Disappearance

Last updated on: June 6, 2026 at 5:43 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Recently, news broke that popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgeway and his wife chose to terminate a pregnancy at thirty-one weeks after genetic testing revealed that their unborn child had Down syndrome. For context, at thirty-one weeks, an unborn child looks remarkably like a newborn, with defined facial features, plump skin, and coordinated movements. At this stage of development, the child typically weighs around three pounds and measures about sixteen inches long. Until the diagnosis, the Ridgeways celebrated each milestone of the... Read more

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2026-06-02T16:55:06-06:00

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One Reason Why I Cannot Be a Progressive Catholic: Beauty

Last updated on: June 2, 2026 at 4:55 pm By Dennis Knapp

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One of my favorite works of art—whether visual, musical, or otherwise—is Mozart’s Requiem. Its beauty reflects something far beyond the mundane, lifting the listener toward unimaginable spiritual heights. When I listen to it, I often experience a mixture of awe and sadness: awe at the God-given genius required to compose such a masterpiece, and sadness for its composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose personal life seems to have lacked the deep piety one might expect from someone used by God in... Read more

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2026-05-29T08:11:53-06:00

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The Foundation Stone Beneath the Ruin

Last updated on: May 29, 2026 at 8:11 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. Three theologians, a Protestant, a Catholic, and an Orthodox monk, met in a dream at the edge of a vast and empty plain. At the centre of the plain stood a single stone. It was ancient, weathered smooth by centuries of wind, and half-sunk into the earth. All three recognised at once that it was a foundation stone. None doubted that something had once been built there, nor that whatever might yet be built would have... Read more

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2026-05-26T20:14:31-06:00

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Envy: The Most Virtuous of Deadly Sins

Last updated on: May 26, 2026 at 8:14 pm By Dennis Knapp

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William Shakespeare once described envy as “the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” The image remains powerful because envy rarely harms only its target. It consumes the soul that nourishes it, turning admiration into resentment and gratitude into bitterness. Do you ever feel that life dealt you an unfair hand while those who deserve less seem to receive more? Life offers no guarantees. God “makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and... Read more

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2026-05-15T09:40:07-06:00

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On the Evasion of Argument and Accountability

Last updated on: May 15, 2026 at 9:40 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. (A special thanks to Pilgrim for his continuing contribution to the blog, especially this week, as I was a bit under the weather). A Note on Pastoral Displacement as a Conversational Strategy Introduction There is a move that recurs in contemporary Catholic discussion of sexual ethics with such regularity that it deserves its own name. Let’s call it “pastoral displacement.” It is the substitution of tone, motive, and social effect for the actual examination of contested theological... Read more

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2026-05-08T15:12:50-06:00

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The Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name

Last updated on: May 8, 2026 at 3:12 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. On the Art of Changing Everything While Changing Nothing Introduction There is a peculiar kind of courage, rarely celebrated and rarely named, which consists in the courage to be vague. It is not the courage of the martyr who dies for a proposition. It is not even the courage of the controversialist who, at least, has the decency to say something definite enough to be wrong. It is, rather, the courage of the document, the long, luminous,... Read more

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2026-05-05T10:05:45-06:00

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Is Moral Truth Optional for Those Who Struggle?

Last updated on: May 5, 2026 at 10:05 am By Dennis Knapp

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Do all Catholics, regardless of their personal struggles and life situations, deserve access to the truth and the good the Church offers? I think so. Yet many Catholics seem to disagree. They suggest that some people should not fully live—or even fully receive—the truth and the good the Church proclaims when doing so becomes difficult. Consider how this often plays out. A heterosexual married couple may find it easier to follow the Church’s moral teaching on sexuality, so no one... Read more

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2026-05-04T18:46:05-06:00

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The Arguments About Mary Were Never Really About Her

Last updated on: May 4, 2026 at 6:46 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Mary in Scripture and Tradition: A Catholic Presentation Guest writer: Pilgrim. All generations will call me blessed, for he who is mighty has done great things for me. (Luke 1:48-49) Introduction What a Christian makes of Mary reveals more about his theology than almost any other question he can be asked. This is not because Marian doctrine is central to the Gospel. Catholics do not claim it is. The disagreements about her turn out, on inspection, to be disagreements about... Read more

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2026-04-27T19:42:01-06:00

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We Must Stop Approval Structures of Violence

Last updated on: April 27, 2026 at 7:42 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Here we go again. Another act of violence targets political conservatives—this time at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. For Donald Trump, this marks a third attempt. Witnesses watched the aftermath unfold in real time. Scared and heartbroken, Erica Kirk—the widow of a previous victim of leftist political violence—left the event sobbing, “I just want to go home.” The Secret Service stopped the attacker before he could carry out his plan. One agent suffered injuries but is expected to recover. Authorities... Read more

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2026-04-23T15:17:07-06:00

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The Limits of Dissent: Pentin’s Interview with Kwasniewski

Last updated on: April 23, 2026 at 3:17 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Pilgrim. Introduction One year after the death of Pope Francis, Edward Pentin’s interview with Peter Kwasniewski presents The Disastrous Pontificate: Pope Francis’ Rupture from the Magisterium as a sober reckoning with a troubled papacy. What it offers, in fact, is something more consequential: a nearly thousand-page forensic account of a pontificate its author regards as a catastrophe. This is, in recent Catholic publishing, a competitive category. The book is presented as a pastoral resource, a handbook for priests,... Read more

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