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December 2020

December 16, 2020

USCCB: Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine Is “An Act of Charity”

On Monday, the USCCB released a statement on the ethics of COVID vaccines. It noted...

December 09, 2020

Hack of Top Anti-Hacking Company Proves Online Privacy Doesn’t Exist

We all appreciate privacy. People sometimes use things like incognito mode to get better prices...

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 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 27, 2020

“Cost-Savings” Claimed as Euthanasia Benefit in Canada

Canada approved "Medical Aid in Dying" in 2016. This law legalized both assisted suicide and...

October 24, 2020

Full Text Proves Francis Meant Civil Unions IN PLACE OF “Gay Marriage”

On Wednesday, quotes from a new documentary came out where Pope Francis seemed to indicate...

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...

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...

August 2020

August 22, 2020

Woman Told She Should Have Aborted Autistic Children

In Ireland, someone told a woman with two autistic children that she should have aborted...

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 30, 2020

Enable Bluetooth Coronavirus Tracing

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

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 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...

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 10, 2019

CBS Treats Eugenic Dating as Advancement

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

November 2019

November 18, 2019

Fr. Dominic Valanmanal, Please Stop Attacking Autistics UPDATED

Fr. Dominic Valanmanal is at it again. This priest compared us autistics to animals and...

November 07, 2019

Clarity in Catholic Tradition on the Morality of Homosexual Acts

Some people might be confused about church teaching on the morality of homosexual acts. We...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

2 Priests & a Deacon Explain Why We Might Deny Communion

This weekend, Joe Biden was denied Communion in a parish in South Carolina. Although denying...

October 23, 2019

Autistic Confession: Tips for Both Sides of the Screen

I recently wrote a piece on confession for autistics. I want to help both the...

October 08, 2019

Let’s Use “Fertility Awareness” not “Natural Family Planning”

I fully support the Church’s teaching on contraception but I wonder if our terminology presents...

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 24, 2019

Privacy and Facial Recognition Software: Moral Analysis

I'm currently writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology on the topic of privacy. A...

September 18, 2019

Resolving Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Hormones?

This week, Australian scientists made an interesting discovery in treating a tough medical condition. The...

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 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...

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...

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