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May 2019

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 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 14, 2019

Diabetes Testing by 23andMe: Pros and Cons

23andMe recently added an option to test for your probability of getting diabetes. (Type-2 diabetes...

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 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...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

California Prepares to Make Martyrs of the Confessional

A new bill was just presented in California to force priests to reveal what is...

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...

February 01, 2019

Sci-Fi from 1950 Foresaw Forced Euthanasia on Earth

Isaac Asimov wrote a sci-fi book called Pebble in the Sky in 1950. This book foresaw...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

The Devastating Effect of Euthanasia on Dutch Culture (UPDATED)

The Netherlands was one of the first countries to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. It has...

January 07, 2019

Human Dignity for Vegetative Patients? Rape of a Vegetative Woman

As Catholics, we understand every human has a unique dignity. Society denies dignity in many...

January 03, 2019

Vatican Rules on Hysterectomies, Allowing Them in Specific Cases

The Vatican updated a ruling on the morality of hysterectomies today. 1993 Ruling on Hysterectomies...

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 19, 2018

The Friendly Atheist is Factually Wrong about Catholicism & Contraception

A popular writer here at Patheos is Hemant Mehta, AKA the Friendly Atheist. Obviously, we...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

UPDATED x2: Moral & Practical Problems with the 1st Gene-Edited Babies

Early this morning, there was a shocking announcement out of China. They performed gene editing...

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...

November 16, 2018

Have Politicians Abandoned Restricting Porn in Any Way?

With 57% of Americans saying viewing pornography is morally wrong and experts in agreement about the dangers...

November 07, 2018

2/3 Pro-Life Ballot Initiatives Won Last Night

Three states had statewide pro-life ballot initiatives yesterday. Two passed and one lost in the...

October 2018

October 18, 2018

Pope Francis Wearing a Rainbow Cross? It Isn’t What You Think✝️

This week Pope Francis wore a cross that had multiple colors on it that appear...

October 11, 2018

Ideas for Increasing Confession (from Twitter)

Recently, several prominent Catholics have been tweeting about confession on Twitter. The consensus seems to be...

October 10, 2018

The Nuance of Abortion Laws Without Roe v. Wade

Today, the Washington Post carried a story about what happens if Roe is overturned. We...

September 2018

September 27, 2018

Millennials Have a Lower Divorce Rate (as a Percent of Marriages)

It seems like good news that divorce is declining in younger people. It is good...

September 19, 2018

Top 9 Questions & Answers on Bishop Barron’s Reddit AMA

Bishop Robert Barron did an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit today. I did an AMA with...

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...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

Further Down the Euthanasia Slippery Slope: 4 More Stories of Unjust Death

A few weeks back, I posted about how euthanasia and assisted suicide were a slippery slope...

August 06, 2018

The Death Penalty Is Wrong But Not Intrinsically Evil or Infallible

People have been repeatedly saying that Pope Francis changed Church teaching on capital punishment on Thursday....

August 03, 2018

Capital Punishment: Francis & the Tradition Before Him Are Both Right

In the past two days, Capital Punishment has been a hot topic. Some claim previous...

July 2018

July 29, 2018

Face Recognition and “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”

The ACLU recently ran congresspersons' faces against a database of 25,000 mugshots using Amazon's facial...

July 05, 2018

“Euthanasia Isn’t a Slippery Slope” while Evidence of a Slippery Slope Mounts (1 story UPDATED)

Before euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal, the whole debate is about people who are...

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