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January 2021

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 19, 2021

My Interview in Crux on Vaccine Ethics

As I have been one of the most outspoken Catholic voices on the ethics of...

January 17, 2021

Scientific Errors Lead to Moral Errors Re: Vaccines (3/3 on Fr. Ripperger)

This is the third and final post on Fr. Ripperger and vaccines in his podcast...

January 15, 2021

Fetal Cell Lines Are Not Continual Theft From the Fetus (2/3 on Fr. Ripperger)

This is the second in a three-part series analyzing Fr. Chad Ripperger on COVID-19 vaccines....

January 13, 2021

Fr. Ripperger: Almost All Vaccines Are Illicit in Their Object 1/3

Yes, you read that right. Fr. Ripperger said only a certain type of vaccines are...

January 08, 2021

Catholics, Promoting Conspiracy Theories Harms Our Cause

Our goal as Catholics is to share Jesus’ message with the whole world. A big...

January 07, 2021

Requiring Genetic Tests Violates Fundamental Human Rights

This is an old article of mine about genetic privacy from 2017. You can note...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

Fr. Nix Is More Confused About Vaccines Than I Thought

A few days before Christmas, I posted a critique of Fr. Dave Nix’s video against...

December 23, 2020

Errors in Fr. Dave Nix’s COVID Vaccine Video

There are unfortunately a lot of errors in Catholic circles on COVID vaccines. I have...

December 18, 2020

12 Things Less-Remote Cooperation in Evil Than COVID Vaccines

In recent days, several vaccines for COVID have reached the final approval process. The USCCB...

December 04, 2020

Interview with Advice for Parents of Autistic Kids

This week, two different sites posted interviews with me. Earlier, I posted the interview on Profiles...

December 02, 2020

Interview on Profiles in Catholicism

Profiles in Catholicism is a website that tries to interview leaders in the Catholic world....

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Doubly-Remote Cooperation in Evil & Vaccines

The whole question of vaccines has been simmering in Catholic circles for a while. When...

November 13, 2020

A Simple Reflection on Our Current Times

Fr. Harrison Ayre and Michael Heinlein just released Finding Christ in the Crisis. It's a short...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

Ask Politicians About Assisted Suicide or It Becomes Law

States have slowly been adopted assisted suicide legislation. This is unethical as it is taking...

October 22, 2020

Pope Francis’s Words on Civil Unions Distorted by Editing

On October 21, 2020, I woke up to find every news source in the world...

October 20, 2020

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Underperforms in California

Do you remember the top bioethical topic of discussion in 2004? It was California voters...

October 14, 2020

Clarifying Catholic Teaching on Vaccines re: Fr. Michael Copenhagen

Several times people have sent me talks or writings by Fr. Michael Copenhagen claiming that...

October 04, 2020

Key Quotes from Fratelli Tutti: Part 1 (Chapters 1-4)

Today, Pope Francis released Fratelli Tutti. I read it all today. As I read through...

October 01, 2020

Living Catholicism with Illness or Disability

This summer I gave a talk on "Living Catholicism with Illness or Disability" for an...

September 2020

September 01, 2020

Debunking Catholic Disinformation Re: Vaccines (Viganò)

Archbishop Viganò was the papal nuncio in the USA years ago but has recently come...

July 2020

July 29, 2020

A Quick Blog Interview on Autism

The Simple Catholic had emailed me some questions a while back. The blog editor got...

July 28, 2020

Speaking Out Against Drinking Bleach

Unfortunately, many promote drinking bleach (usually called MMS) to cure autism and COVID. All the...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

Prudence over Politics in Reopening Churches

On Wednesday, May 20, it came out that the bishops of Minnesota will open their...

May 14, 2020

St. Isidore of Seville is NOT the Official Patron of the Internet.

When I wrote on soon to be Blessed Carlo Acutis, I got the same reply...

May 13, 2020

Welcoming Autistics at Mass (Podcast with Cincinnati Archdiocese)

A while back, I spoke about welcoming autistic individuals to Mass and religious education on...

May 07, 2020

Organic Spirituality in an Artificial Spirituality World

Silence, listening to the voice of God, a personal encounter with the living God, deep...

May 01, 2020

Ministering to the Disabled on the Counsel of Trent Podcast

Earlier this week, Trent Horn had John Kraemer and me on his podcast to discuss...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

A Marriage Preparation or Enrichment Program Worth Considering

John and Claire Grabowski, One Body: A Program of Marriage Preparation and Enrichment for the...

April 24, 2020

Helping Autistics Participate in the Liturgy

As I have noted several times before in this column, autistic individuals often have some...

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