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August 2021

August 09, 2021

Imprudence & Imprecision on Vaccines & Mandates

On August 5, the Bishops of Colorado issued a statement that although not technically wrong,...

August 04, 2021

Electronic Privacy and Fidelity

After The Pillar’s expose on Msgr. Burrill using Grindr, there have been a whole bunch...

August 03, 2021

What Is Natural Law?

This weekend, Aleteia published a piece I wrote attempting to explain natural law. I was...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

“Distractions” and Priestly Fidelity

One line from the USCCB’s statement on Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill’s resignation has bothered me: they...

July 02, 2021

Who is Weaponizing the Eucharist? Politicians, Not Bishops

Recently concerns have arisen over the bishops following historical pastoral practice and insisting that people...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

The Secular Value of the Sacrament of Confession

As some of you may know, my current full-time responsibility is writing a doctoral thesis...

June 10, 2021

Peter Singer: Eugenics Is Great! (YIKES!)

One insidious aspect of the culture of death is the idea we can kill "undesirable"...

June 04, 2021

Anti-Vaccine Catholics Break Moral Theology Principles

Basic moral theology indicates that we can, and in most cases should, use the vaccines...

April 2021

April 23, 2021

Vaccines: 2 Moral Issues But Only 1 Discussed

While Catholics in the USA have been extremely concerned over a rather minor issue regarding...

April 21, 2021

Comparing COVID Vaccine to Other Vaccines

For decades, Catholic ethicists have approved of several vaccines in the USA which have some...

April 18, 2021

The Inconsistency of Moral Lines in Cooperation (Lincare Quarterly)

I just ran across a Licare Quarterly Editorial from February that cited me. I think Barbara...

April 16, 2021

Pro-Life & Disability Rights: Often on the Same Side but Not Always

I've written before about how disability rights groups and pro-life groups support human dignity in...

April 09, 2021

From Founding a Startup to Deloitte to the Convent

Montserrat Medina Martínez was an up-and-coming woman in Spanish business. Despite being only 36, she has gone...

April 08, 2021

Artificial food, sex and drugs give us an artificial high—and they’re getting in the way of our search for God

Back in 2019, I wrote a little reflection on organic spirituality in an artificial world....

April 02, 2021

Autism Awareness Day on Good Friday

Today, we have two days seemingly in conflict. We commemorate the suffering and death of...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Issues with (Br) Alexis Bugnolo, Ordo Militaris & FromRome

Alexis Bugnolo runs FromRome, Ordo Militaris, and Scholasticum online. The first is meant to be...

March 23, 2021

Quantifying Cooperation in or Appropriation of Evil

Some Catholics have questions about COVID vaccines based on the very remote connection to abortion....

March 18, 2021

The Case of Hearing an Abusive Priest’s Confession

When I did my License in Theology, my thesis was 100 pages on when absolution...

March 17, 2021

Defaulting to Filtering Pornography Is a Good Idea

Utah was in the news this week a new bill that requires all new devices...

March 06, 2021

Pope Francis’s Interreligious Speech in Iraq: Top Lines

This morning, Pope Francis gave a speech to an interreligious meeting on the plain of...

March 02, 2021

You Can Use the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine in Some Cases

Recently, the FDA approved the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine (emergency use authorization). This brings up...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Another German Bishop Denies Catholic Teaching on Homosexual Acts

Two years ago, I wrote a response when one German bishop denied Church teaching on...

February 16, 2021

John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis All Did Ashes on the Crown

This Ash Wednesday, the distribution of the ashes will be a little different for Canada...

February 13, 2021

DNR Orders Forced on Those With Learning Disabilities

Back in April 2020, I reported on how DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders were put...

February 12, 2021

Prayer for the Neurodivergent

Prayer for people with mental health is an issue we need to address as a...

February 11, 2021

FREE Euthanasia for the Disabled in Canada

The Canadian government is proposing a law that will push euthanasia on the disabled. This...

February 05, 2021

Cooperation with Evil on Catholic Answers Live

Today, cooperation with evil comes up in many situations Catholics need to make moral choices....

January 2021

January 29, 2021

13 Cool Pro-Life Signs and Shirts Posted During MFL 2021

This year, the March for Life was mainly virtual. However, many still posted their great...

January 28, 2021

If Any Drug Tested on HEK-293 Is Immoral, Goodbye Modern Medicine

For years, the Church has generally encouraged vaccines while noting issues with certain ones grown...

January 22, 2021

Flo Case Shows Inadequate Data Privacy Protection in the USA

Flo is an app for tracking women's menstrual cycles. Thus, it holds pretty private information....

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