All of us adult Catholics probably now have a habit of giving up something for Lent or doing something extra to grow spiritually. We should offer a little sacrifice to unite ourselves with Jesus and to prepare for Holy Week. […]
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Summarizing My Thought from Twitter
Mark Wilson over at Catholic Bard has searched through my Twitter pretty extensively to catalog / summarize my thought. He compiled a long piece that might be helpful for those wanting a summary of what I have posted on rather […]
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Privacy & Social Media on the Ethics and Culture Cast
Back in November, I was at the de Nicola Center’s annual Fall Conference at Nore Dame. I presented on human dignity and privacy focusing on the social encyclicals, Alan Westin, and John Paul II. Ken Hallenius, one of the people working […]
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Catholic Anti-Vax Arguments & Reductio ad Absurdum (2/2)
Yesterday, I posted a piece explaining the structure and possible counterarguments to a reductio ad absurdum. If you haven’t read that, you might want to go and read it. Now we deal with a claim where a reductio ad absurdum […]
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12 Things Less-Remote Cooperation in Evil Than COVID Vaccines
I wrote a kind of reductio ad absurdum about how remote the connection to abortion is with vaccines only tested on fetal cell lines. In recent days, several vaccines for COVID have reached the final approval process. The USCCB indicated that Catholics […]
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Why is Public Mass Suspended? 4 Case Studies Show Why
After COVID, hit and parishes were not having public Mass, some wondered about the prudence of this. I gave a few cases showing why in a post. If anyone still questions why Catholic churches have suspended public Masses? It’s because […]
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No, Our Lord Didn’t Have “Homosexual Tendencies”
I don’t believe I need to say this, but I do: I can’t believe I have to write this. Unfortunately, some people think this is an open question or want to imply Jesus might have had same-sex attraction. The most […]
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Making a Mountain out of a Papal Blessing
Here’s an example of people trying to make a huge deal about something that is almost nothing. He gave an orthodox spontaneous blessing over the normal formula. I wrote a bit: Yesterday, Pope Francis was in Palermo. After one of […]
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Evangelizing Social Media: a 4-Part Series
I did a 4-part series on online evangelization. It might be helpful for some Part 1: Fundamental Principles of Social Media People have asked me for a long time to help with their social media. Many people asked assuming there […]
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Discovering I was a “Catholic Hipster” before that was a thing!
I wrote a book review on Aleteia: In The Catholic Hipster Handbook, writer Mary Rezac has a chapter on buying from the local farmer’s markets as a way of living the principle of subsidiarity, but she doesn’t go to the extreme of starting […]
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