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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 20, 2019

Deep Autistic Prayer: A Personal Prayer Beyond Words

When we autistics pray, we can go deep. However, autistic prayer is slightly different from...

September 04, 2019

Autistic Memory and Prayer

We autistics tend to have a really amazing memory. I have said before that friends...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Hyposensitivity in Autistics

Part of the diagnostic criteria for autism is sensory irregularities. This can be hypersensitivity and...

August 23, 2019

Adaptive First Communion Preparation Kit Unboxing

Before I spoke about if autistic children should receive first Communion. They should, in case...

August 14, 2019

The Privacy Concerns Over Recent DNA Criminal Cases

A string of recent cold cases have been solved by DNA. However, these cases are...

July 2019

July 17, 2019

Dear National Catholic Reporter, Don’t Fudge Parish Numbers

Last week, the National Catholic Reporter came out with a story about a parish they...

June 2019

June 11, 2019

Decent Answers to Faith and Science

Ian Hutchinson recently wrote, Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions...

June 06, 2019

Disability Should Be Part of Christian Witness

Benjamin T. Conner recently wrote an interesting book trying mission and disability studies together. It...

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 15, 2019

Key Quotes from Christus Vivit

With Pope Francis issuing a letter to young people as after the synod on youth,...

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...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

Autistic Children Should Receive First Communion!

Some people don't know this, but the Vatican and US bishops are very clear that...

April 04, 2019

We Are Never Lost (Homily on the Woman Caught in Adultery)

This month, I was asked to prepare the homilies for a priest's publication, Homiletic and...

March 2019

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 06, 2019

15 Last Minute Ideas for Lenten Sacrifices (from Twitter)

All of us adult Catholics probably now have a habit of giving up something for...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Bold New Catholic T-Shirts & Mugs (Launching a RedBubble Store)

As I have written online things, a few times I've had ideas for interesting shirts,...

February 19, 2019

Open Letter to Priests and Bishops: Resign If You Need to

Dear fellow clerics and religious in Christ, I know that most of you are hard-working...

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...

January 2019

January 26, 2019

Pro-Life Tweet Gets 2 Million Views But Many Misunderstand It

During the March for Life this year, I posted a tweet about a mom who...

January 18, 2019

14 Mind-Blowing Signs at March for Life 2019

On Friday, January 18, thousands in the pro-life movement marched in DC for an end...

January 02, 2019

The Limits of What a Church Can Do With a Misbehaving Priest: The Case of Fr. Tetherow

Fr. Virgil Bradley Tetherow was forbidden from saying Mass and removed from the clerical state....

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 18, 2018

2 Anonymous Priests: Silence Regarding Priestly Misconduct Is a Problem

Too often, the modus operandi in the Church continues to be ignoring problems priests have....

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...

December 04, 2018

Atheists Trolled Me for 5 Days, So I Learned Their Strategies

Two weeks ago, I posted a version of the popular meme-like format of “Don’t say...

December 02, 2018

Family Advent Traditions (via Twitter)

On Twitter, I asked for people's Advent traditions. Here are some of the best responses....

November 2018

November 26, 2018

Elizabeth Bruenig: Tell the Whole Truth to End the Crisis

Last Monday afternoon (November 19) featured a panel of four top Journalists at Catholic University...

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