- Catholic Spirituality, Culture of Death, Family Life, mental health, Parenting, politics, sin, Suffering
As a parent, you have one job
(I mean, aside from the obvious keep them alive/fed/clothed and try your hardest to get them to Heaven part. Does that go without saying?) I had someone make the following bold statement to me earlier this year, and…
Radically detached and slightly unhinged
Maybe we should get a kitten. We’ve been in our new house a week and a half now, and as the floors are slowly covered with clean, shining new surfaces to scratch and scuff and sully, I…
- Abortion, Bioethics, Catholic Spirituality, Catholics Do What?, Contraception, Culture of Death, euthanasia, Evangelization, Homosexuality, politics, Pro Life, reality check, relativism, sin, Suffering
The power of language and the witness of words
It is a curious time to be a Catholic Christian. (Is it ever not, though? I think maybe we all fall prey to a little good old fashioned chronological snobbery, whether or not we care to admit…
- Catholic Spirituality, Culture of Death, Evangelization, motherhood, Parenting, sin, social media, Suffering
The news is still good
The other evening I found myself cruising down one of the main drags through town, passing a swath of car dealerships on my drive through south Denver. The massive American flags that adorn their lots were all hung at…
Abortion {still} isn’t healthcare
It’s not. And in an ironic convergence of worldviews, I can see why SCOTUS would overturn a Texas law requiring certain minimum medical standards be met by abortion clinics. Because abortion isn’t healthcare. Which is why, I suppose, the…
What’s wrong with the world today?
I am. Me, me, meeeeeeee. GK Chesterton was and is and will be until kingdom comes, right about that. As any sense of sin and evil and wrongdoing has receded into the background of our collective consciousness,…
- Bioethics, Catholics Do What?, Contraception, infertility, IVF, Marriage, motherhood, NFP, pregnancy, Pro Life, Sex, sin, Women's Health
Why not just use birth control? {some possible “right” answers}
I field a good number of questions along the lines of “how do I explain to my boss/neighbor/mother-in-law/college bff why we don’t use contraception?” This tends to be an especially sticky conversation when the questioner in the scenario happens to…
- Bioethics, Catholic Spirituality, Culture of Death, euthanasia, Evangelization, Pro Life, relativism, sin
Gorillas, internet mobs, and the culture of the living dead
“The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual . . . what we…
- Catholic Spirituality, Family Life, liturgical living, Marriage, motherhood, reading, sin, Suffering
A liturgy of laundry
Last week in my rantings about impersonal social media and the vile temptation to permascroll, I may have insufficiency highlighted the upside. But the upside of the digital age – and there are substantial benefits – is…
Lord, we need you
There are two women sitting to my right, and I’ve been trying – unsuccessfully – not to overhear them for the past half hour, sitting and working in a coffee shop. They’ve been chatting therapy and personal…