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January 2022

January 24, 2022

21 of the Most Dynamic Signs at March For Life 2022

The March for Life 2022 happened today and people had plenty of amazing signs. I...

August 2021

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...

August 03, 2021

What Is Natural Law?

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

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"...

April 2021

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...

March 2021

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...

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 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....

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 08, 2020

Wage Theft in the Gig Economy

Wage theft has been a serious issue in the US, with a 2009 estimate putting...

October 2020

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...

September 2020

September 18, 2020

An Autistic Mental Breakdown Doesn’t Excuse Shooting a 13-Year-Old

In Salt Lake City, a 13-year-old autistic boy had a mental breakdown. The mom called...

September 16, 2020

Portland Bans Most Facial Recognition

I have written several times about facial recognition before. As a large concern of mine...

August 2020

August 01, 2020

Genetic Screening Might Kill Disabled Babies

Yes, you read that right. Most of you have probably heard about genetic testing on...

July 2020

July 11, 2020

Good News: First State DNA Privacy Law

As I might have mentioned before, I'm currently writing a doctoral thesis on the Catholic...

June 2020

June 09, 2020

Deepfakes Create Many Moral Messes

Deepfakes are a new technology where a person's face is taken from stills or video...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

Give Autistics Control: Don’t Push DNR Orders on Us

In the UK, doctors put DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders on a bunch of autistic adults'...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

How Parishes Can Avoid Laying Off Staff

With public worship and gathering of large groups suspended, many Catholic parishes and other charities...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

Non-Verbal Autistic Child Denied Communion: Some Lessons (Updated)

Earlier this week a non-verbal autistic child was denied registration for First Communion at a...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Fingerprint Scan & Facial Recognition to Enter a Church in China

I've previously written thrice on the moral implications of facial recognition on our privacy. This...

January 22, 2020

Facial Recognition: How Much Privacy is Just?

Facial recognition is widely becoming available. The question of how this should be used comes...

December 2019

December 17, 2019

USCCB Should Propose Paid Maternity Leave

The other day, a friend noted on Twitter that his wife was not granted paid...

December 13, 2019

Food, Shelter, and Clothing are Basic Human Rights

I am surprised how adamantly some Catholics deny that life’s necessities are human rights. However,...

December 10, 2019

CBS Treats Eugenic Dating as Advancement

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

December 02, 2019

Christians Should Embrace Neurodiversity

I am an autistic priest. When I was first diagnosed with autism as a priest,...

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Pennsylvania Politicians Divided Over Aborting the Disabled

In the past few days, it has been reported that the Pennsylvania House and Senate...

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 25, 2019

Pope Francis Greets an Autistic Girl

Pope Francis greeted an autistic girl from Naples at his Wednesday audience this week. It...

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...

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