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January 2022

January 03, 2022

AI Algorithms & Free Will (Moral Analysis)

I posted a piece of technology ethics over on FrMatthewLC.com. Algorithms are good but not...

December 2021

December 10, 2021

Aquinas: Some Sins Worse Than Sexual Sins

In response to people freaking out about Pope Francis, I examined what Aquinas said: This...

November 2021

November 18, 2021

Fetal Cell Lines ≠ Aborted Baby Parts

In the discussion around vaccines tested on fetal cell lines there is what appears to...

October 2021

October 14, 2021

Fetal Cell Line Testing & Church Teaching

Despite claims to the contrary from some circles, the Church has never taught that medicine...

October 01, 2021

Lying About Vaccines Is Sinful

Last year, I wrote a piece on lying to avoid mask mandates. I think it...

September 2021

September 22, 2021

Only 1 Step from Autonomous Warfare (& Privacy Concerns)

Israel recently killed a top Iranian nuclear scientist. On its own, that might be news,...

September 17, 2021

Missing the Point about Remote Cooperation / Appropriation

My piece from January, If Any Drug Tested on HEK-293 Is Immoral, Goodbye Modern Medicine,...

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 19, 2021

Did the Pope Say the Commandments are Relative?

Simple answer: no! The Pope did not say the Ten Commandments are relative. Complicated answer:...

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 04, 2021

Electronic Privacy and Fidelity

After The Pillar’s expose on Msgr. Burrill using Grindr, there have been a whole bunch...

August 03, 2021

What Is Natural Law?

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

July 2021

July 26, 2021

“Distractions” and Priestly Fidelity

One line from the USCCB’s statement on Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill’s resignation has bothered me: they...

July 02, 2021

Who is Weaponizing the Eucharist? Politicians, Not Bishops

Recently concerns have arisen over the bishops following historical pastoral practice and insisting that people...

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"...

June 04, 2021

Anti-Vaccine Catholics Break Moral Theology Principles

Basic moral theology indicates that we can, and in most cases should, use the vaccines...

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...

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...

April 08, 2021

Artificial food, sex and drugs give us an artificial high—and they’re getting in the way of our search for God

Back in 2019, I wrote a little reflection on organic spirituality in an artificial world....

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 18, 2021

The Case of Hearing an Abusive Priest’s Confession

When I did my License in Theology, my thesis was 100 pages on when absolution...

March 17, 2021

Defaulting to Filtering Pornography Is a Good Idea

Utah was in the news this week a new bill that requires all new devices...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Another German Bishop Denies Catholic Teaching on Homosexual Acts

Two years ago, I wrote a response when one German bishop denied Church teaching on...

February 05, 2021

Cooperation with Evil on Catholic Answers Live

Today, cooperation with evil comes up in many situations Catholics need to make moral choices....

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 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 07, 2021

Requiring Genetic Tests Violates Fundamental Human Rights

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

January 06, 2021

Withdrawing Ventilators in Triage: A Catholic Approach

As you may know, I am currently writing a doctoral degree in moral theology. Another...

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