Last month, Ray Sexton invited me on his Lift High the Cross podcast to explain Catholic teachings to Protestants. Ray hopes to become a Lutheran pastor and interviews pastors from various Christian branches, although I was the first Catholic. He […]
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Fr. Jim Sichko, Habitual Plagiarist (Updated)
Several years ago, the Church was rocked by the scandal that Fr. Thomas Roscia had extensively plagiarized material for articles and speeches. He had been a Vatican advisor and the head of Canada’s Catholic TV network before the fall. I […]
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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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My Autism Prayer Book in Publishers Weekly
Sr. Maria Grace, FSP, who is working with me at Pauline Press on my book on prayer for autistics told me about an article mentioning my book in Publishers Weekly. It was in an article about faith-based books in general […]
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Aquinas: Some Sins Worse Than Sexual Sins (Updated)
This week, Pope Francis noted that sexual sins or sins of the flesh are not the worst kind of sins during an interview on a plane. There have been three mistaken reactions to this. First, many secular sources assumed he […]
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Us, Not Them -Aussie Bishops on Those With Disabilities
Tomorrow is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (Obviously, some of us – particularly the blind, Deaf & autistic – prefer identity-first language but most disabled people prefer person-first language.) The Church celebrates it on the closest Sunday (i.e. […]
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From Founding a Startup to Deloitte to the Convent
I translated an amazing story from Spanish on Patheos: Montserrat Medina Martínez was an up-and-coming woman in Spanish business. Despite being only 36, she has gone from success to success professionally. With a scholarship from Stanford, she created a Silicon Valley startup that […]
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Issues with (Br) Alexis Bugnolo, Ordo Militaris & FromRome
I did a long-form investigative piece on a person who I keep seeing online promoting conspiracy theories and claiming they are Catholic. Alexis Bugnolo runs FromRome, Ordo Militaris, and Scholasticum online. The first is meant to be a news site, […]
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Catholics, Promoting Conspiracy Theories Harms Our Cause
Here’s a short piece I posted on an issue where some Catholics seriously harm our cause. Our goal as Catholics is to share Jesus’ message with the whole world. A big part of this message comes down to credibility. We […]
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