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In recent years, more people have taken a negative attitude towards vaccines. A foremost opponent of vaccines in recent decades, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has even come to lead Health and Human Services. Anti-vaccine attitudes have serious negative effects on […]
Read moreHint: the bishop who closes the parish is not usually the main issue. We often blame the current bishop when parishes close, but the more I thought about this, the less it seemed true. That led me to write an […]
Read moreOver the past year, 3 different communities invited me to give presentations on autism and consecrated life. I presented to all three on autism in religious or consecrated life. The three had very different charisms – cloistered contemplative, semi-contemplative non-religious, […]
Read moreWe autistics often struggle at Mass. Helping find ways to lessen this struggle is a theme I have addressed before. The sensory issues and other factors often make it difficult for us. Deacon Mark Paine in the UK recently wrote […]
Read moreWhen the Church declares someone a saint, it is more than simply that they were holy. A saint must be an example of life in a broad array of aspects. As such, even a strong connection to another’s grave evil […]
Read moreNote: this piece was first published in Restoration, Madonna House’s monthly newspaper. They just made it free & I encourage everyone to subscribe, as many of the other reflections are great too. I usually read it cover-to-cover. Silence belongs to […]
Read moreVaccines have been one of the most controversial public issues in Catholic bioethics in the past few years. It has been established that in most cases, there is an individual moral obligation to get recommended vaccines. However, this leaves open […]
Read moreIt is good that the idea of sensory-friendly Masses is slowly expanding in Catholic circles. It is wonderful to see Aleteia posting a story about them, including my directory, this week. Here’s an excerpt from the post: A beautiful new […]
Read moreI wrote one chapter of Indispensable: A Catholic Guide to Welcoming Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. It came out in September, but I only managed to finish reading the rest more recently. I want to provide a summary of […]
Read moreA bit ago, Dr. Peter Hotez published “Vaccine Science Diplomacy and ‘The Phenomenon of Man’” in the Linacre Quarterly. Much of it is looking at Teilhard de Chardin’s theories and their application, but that was not what I thought needed […]
Read moreThis reflection about Jesus as a king came to me on my spiritual exercises over the summer. However, I thought it fit best for Christ the King coming this weekend. We still do a meditation on “the call of Christ […]
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