Phyllis Zagano recently wrote a piece in RNS where the first line is precisely wrong about double-effect. This is not some esoteric point: the first paragraph of Wikipedia on the topic or slides from the introduction to theology class I […]
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We love Jesus. Jesus loved us first. I want to help you experience Jesus and become his apostle. I'm a priest with the Legionaries of Christ ordained in 2013, living in the Washington DC metro area where I'm writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology and I help out with various ministries. I'm also one of the top priests on social media with over 55,000 Twitter followers. I'm originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but I've worked throughout North America.
McElroy Makes a Good Point, But Misses Another One (How to define Grave Matter)
Not long ago, Card. Robert McElroy published a reply to the replies to his original piece on Communion in certain circumstances. In it, he gets into talking about categories of sin and what makes a mortal sin. I think he […]
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Explaining Ash Wednesday on Fox News
I am on Fox News this morning explaining Ash Wednesday to a secular audience. Here are some highlights, but you can read the rest over there. Ash Wednesday is a reminder “that we say ‘yes’ to God by saying ‘no’ […]
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God Loves the Autistic Mind on EWTN Bookmark
Back on Halloween, I was at EWTN and recorded episodes for two shows. At Home with Jim and Joy went live later that week. EWTN Bookmark just went live recently. I was really impressed by Doug Keck’s preparation. You can’t […]
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Looking at Jesus’ Healing Miracles in a New Light
This is my review of Bethany McKinney Fox, Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019) which is a work of disability theology focused on Jesus’ miracles. It […]
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Fr. Matthew LC on the Crab & the Cross
I was recently on a podcast called The Crab and the Cross. We recorded the podcast back in early November, so you can hear me talk about recently being on At Home with Jim and Joy on EWTN. But it […]
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Genetic Testing & Autism: Good Idea but Misguided
We know that the main cause of autism is genetics, with exact percentages varying in different studies. (The evidence is strongly against the main cause being vaccines, processed food, or any such claimed causes.) However, when we look for a […]
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Sensory-friendly Masses Can Be Ordinary or Extraordinary Form
I have advocated for every diocese to offer at least one sensory-friendly Mass so autistics who otherwise struggle to get to Mass can do so. Crisis carried a piece by Greg Cook today on a bunch of things around autism. […]
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Great Post-Dobbs Signs at the March for Life
I was not able to go up to DC to attend the March for Life as I have in past years. However, I searched Twitter for the best signs and want to share them with you. This has been a […]
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Editors’ Pick in Plough: God Loves the Autistic Mind
Plough, a publisher of thoughtful articles on Christian life, has a review of my book under their “Editors’ Picks” series. Most of the previous reviews have been from explicitly Catholic sources, while this is a more general Christian source (it […]
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