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September 2019

September 26, 2019

Euthanasia Where My Great Aunt Was a Sister-Nurse

Recently, a hospital in Catholic Canada was forced to start doing euthanasia assessments. They will...

September 24, 2019

Privacy and Facial Recognition Software: Moral Analysis

I'm currently writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology on the topic of privacy. A...

September 18, 2019

Resolving Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Hormones?

This week, Australian scientists made an interesting discovery in treating a tough medical condition. The...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Assisted Suicide: How the Church Should Behave and WHY

This week, news came out of Seattle of Robert Fuller who died via assisted suicide....

August 22, 2019

The Ethics of Sperm-Sorting to Get Male Babies

Scientists have created a gel that changes the speed of sperm. It slows down sperm...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Why the Pro-Life & Disability Rights Movements Should Cooperate

I wrote up on why the pro-life and disability rights movements should work together as...

May 28, 2019

New Chinese Law Makes Embryonic DNA-Editing Illegal

The world got a lot closer to preventing genetically edited babies, at least for the...

May 23, 2019

Bioethics Must Outpace Technology

Today, technology is moving at a fast rate. Things that were science fiction 20 years...

May 08, 2019

Let’s Bring Back Parish Missions on Contraception

Following the post I made recently on explaining contraception, I follow up with one way...

May 03, 2019

We Need to Explain Why Contraception Is Immoral

This is possibly the most confusing Catholic teaching. I point out how even historically we...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

Arguments Against a Germ-Line Editing Moratorium Fail

Last week it came out that many scientists want a 5-year moratorium on gene-line editing....

March 19, 2019

Saving Eggs before Blocking Puberty: Why “Transition” If Still Uncertain?

A recent report came out about a young woman who thinks she is a man...

March 14, 2019

Diabetes Testing by 23andMe: Pros and Cons

23andMe recently added an option to test for your probability of getting diabetes. (Type-2 diabetes...

March 13, 2019

Amoris Laetitia: A Complete Guide for Chapter VIII on Communion

Ever since Amoris Laetitia came out, there has been confusion about how to interpret chapter...

March 01, 2019

Anonymous Sperm Donors and Genetic Testing: A Moral Conundrum

IVF has always been an issue for Catholic morality. New DNA tests that help find...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Amoris Laetitia: Communion for the Divorced & Remarried?

Those of you who follow me, may have noted that I have taken a clear...

February 06, 2019

Dear German Bishop: Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality Can’t Change

Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen recently wrote an essay titled "Overcoming prejudices: The Catholic Church must change its...

February 01, 2019

Sci-Fi from 1950 Foresaw Forced Euthanasia on Earth

Isaac Asimov wrote a sci-fi book called Pebble in the Sky in 1950. This book foresaw...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

The Devastating Effect of Euthanasia on Dutch Culture (UPDATED)

The Netherlands was one of the first countries to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. It has...

January 04, 2019

New York Times Criticizes the Contraceptive Mentality & More IUDs

I was surprised to see an article from the New York Times being negative about...

January 03, 2019

Vatican Rules on Hysterectomies, Allowing Them in Specific Cases

The Vatican updated a ruling on the morality of hysterectomies today. 1993 Ruling on Hysterectomies...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Burning Questions about Catholicism: Theology Q&A on CuriousCat

People have asked me a bunch of theological questions online. I collected the best on my CuriousCat...

December 19, 2018

The Friendly Atheist is Factually Wrong about Catholicism & Contraception

A popular writer here at Patheos is Hemant Mehta, AKA the Friendly Atheist. Obviously, we...

December 07, 2018

Starbucks & Tumblr Banning Porn before Notre Dame

Yes, you read that right. All public forums and all Catholic institutes should ban porn....

December 07, 2018

Spiritual Direction, Scruples, Vocation, Confession, etc. (Spiritual Situations Q&A on CuriousCat)

A few weeks ago, I published an intro to the spiritual life Q&A based on...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

New Tests Allow “Screening” of Low-IQ Babies

A new company called Genomics Prediction now claims to be able to test IVF babies...

November 17, 2018

Changes in Embryo Research May Lead to More Ethical Vaccines

Several vaccines, currently used in the USA, are grown or prepared using unethical means. These vaccines...

November 16, 2018

Have Politicians Abandoned Restricting Porn in Any Way?

With 57% of Americans saying viewing pornography is morally wrong and experts in agreement about the dangers...

October 2018

October 10, 2018

The Nuance of Abortion Laws Without Roe v. Wade

Today, the Washington Post carried a story about what happens if Roe is overturned. We...

October 02, 2018

Bishop Caggiano: We Need to Address Sex Abuse to Reach Youth

Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport, CT is a delegate at the youth synod. He recently spoke...

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