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December 2021

December 17, 2021

Covaxin: A Vaccine We Can All Get Behind

I posted a piece on another vaccine over on FrMatthewLC.com: For the last year, the...

August 2021

August 27, 2021

Bridgeport: The Best Vaccine Mandate Instruction Yet

Various dioceses have issued statements about vaccine mandates that seem contradictory. I think many of...

August 17, 2021

Christian vs. Secular Bioethics in Losing Our Dignity by Charlie Camosy

Charles Camosy recently wrote a work analyzing the world of bioethics, comparing and contrasting different...

April 2021

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...

March 2021

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 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...

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 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...

December 2020

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...

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 18, 2020

Vaccines and Double Effect with Trent Horn

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being on Trent Horn's podcast, the Council of Trent....

October 2020

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...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

Speaking Out Against Drinking Bleach

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

June 2020

June 30, 2020

Enable Bluetooth Coronavirus Tracing

I've seen a number of posts of people freaking out on social media telling everyone...

March 2020

March 21, 2020

Priest-Microbiologist on COVID-19: Possible Treatment & Metaphysics

I have found a lot of the reporting both on the effects and possible treatment...

December 2019

December 10, 2019

CBS Treats Eugenic Dating as Advancement

This week, the CBS News Program, 60 Minutes featured a report on George Church, a...

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...

May 2019

May 23, 2019

Bioethics Must Outpace Technology

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

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 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...

January 2019

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...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

Science Didn’t Prove Adam & Eve or Noah’s Ark

A whole bunch of media reports seemed to imply some scientists proved Adam & Eve...

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...

September 2018

September 05, 2018

Attacks Against Paper on Social Aspects of Gender Dysphoria

About two weeks ago, a professor at Brown University published a study but now the study...

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