Why No Privacy in Vatican Reflection on Social Media?
At the end of May, the Vatican published "Towards Full Presence. A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media." It is generally a good document on social media with few surprises for me. (I've read more than the average person […]
The Fall River Anchor on God Loves the Autistic Mind
The Anchor, the paper of the diocese of Fall River, MA, decided to review my book on their own. Many dioceses picked up existing reviews and reprinted them, but I appreciate dioceses who accept their own reviews. Their review starts: […]
A Stronger Moral Obligation to Vaccinate (National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly)
Back in December, I published a summary of an academic article from the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly on why COVID vaccines were ordinary means. Not only did I summarize it, but after communicating briefly with one of the authors, I […]
Aut-ish Podcast on Autism & Religion
Back in November, I recorded a podcast with an autistic podcaster out of the UK who goes by Onikage online. Her podcast is called Aut-ish. When looking for autism podcasts, I found hers to often have some of the more […]
God Loves the Autistic Mind: a Finalist in the Association of Catholic Publishers 2023 Awards
My book, God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us, is a finalist in the prayer category for the 2023 Excellence in Publishing Awards Finalists for the Association of Catholic Publishers. […]
Vlog on Autism with an Old Teacher (now Superintendant)
In February, I was giving a conference in Vancouver, Canada to the Catholic school teachers there. On my way back to Belmont Abbey, I stopped to visit my family in Calgary as it was on the way. My sister is […]
Autismo e spiritualità (Presentazione alla CEI del P. Matthew, LC)
Sono stato invitato a presentare in una giornata sull’autismo e spiritualità organizzato per il Servizio Nazionale per la Pastorale delle Persone con Disabilità della CEI. […]
Zagano & RNS Get Double Effect Completely Wrong
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]