I posted this over on Patheos. My piece from January, If Any Drug Tested on HEK-293 Is Immoral, Goodbye Modern Medicine, continues to be widely viewed, averaging over 1000 views a day in the past month. This has lead to several people […]
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Did the Pope Say the Commandments are Relative?
This question came up so I wrote about it on Patheos. Simple answer: no! The Pope did not say the Ten Commandments are relative. Complicated answer: let’s look at how an issue in translation and assuming the worst might lead […]
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Fetal Cell Lines Are Not Continual Theft From the Fetus (2/3 on Fr. Ripperger)
I wrote a second piece on Ripperger that directly points out that his central argument does not hold water. It is posted over on Patheos. This is the second in a three-part series analyzing Fr. Chad Ripperger on COVID-19 vaccines. […]
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3 Distinctions When Catholics Are Accused of “Discrimination”
I recently wrote about the cases of “discrimination” on Catholic Stand. In recent years, there have been many claims that this or that Catholic group was discriminatory. Everything from “Pro-choice Woman Denied Catholic Wedding” to “Gay Teacher Fired” to “Autistic […]
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The net neutrality debate needs a little nuance
As the net neutrality debate heats up, let’s look at some nuances that are important for a moral analysis. I did on Aleteia this week. The binary view in American politics can often lead us to believe there are only […]
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Catholicism Often Gets the Short End of the Stick on Both Sides of Academia
I wrote a piece comparing Catholic institutions’ response to dissent vs. secular institutions’ response to Catholicism on Catholic Stand. Paul Griffiths is an expert on Catholic thought, holding the Warren Professor of Catholic thought at Duke Divinity School but this past […]
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Müller’s defense of ‘Amoris Laeitia’ reads it in Church tradition
Card. Müller came out strongly in support of reading Amoris Laetitia last week so I summarized it and commented. On Thursday of last week, Cardinal Gerhard Müller continued his defense of an orthodox reading of Amoris Laeitia in the most forceful […]
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Overdosing from despair: How the Church can fight the opioid epidemic
An article I wrote a while back was finally published by Crux today. I recently had a hernia operation and was given a week’s worth of opioid painkillers for afterwards. Recovering from surgery, and dealing with the pain and discomfort […]
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What if we’ve been wrong about ‘Amoris’ all along?
I published this on Crux. Ever since it came out in April 2016, there’s been an avalanche of debate in Catholic circles about Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’s document on the family. At least in English, both sides seem to agree […]
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Solutions for the Moral Crises of Every Day
This is a review of What’s a Person to Do?: Everyday Decisions That Matter by Mark S. Latkovic (OSV, 2013). Instead of talking about the big hot button moral issues like abortion, transgender rights, the death penalty or gay marriage, Dr Latkovic […]
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