Health Care Decisions are Not a Sign of Piety or Devotion

My wife and I are expecting a child, not our first, and God-willing, not our last.  We are relatively young parents, still in our twenties, and this will be our third child in a short time.  Due to various reasons, which we do not need to go over, our children will come into this world …

It is against Church Teaching to be a Liberal

​Could I have picked a more inflammatory title, maybe, however, it would be tough.  Am I suggesting that every Catholic is required to be a conservative in order to exercise legitimate political participation?  I will let you decide which political parties in the current spectrum are reconcilable with Church teaching regarding politics. It is worth …

Why I don’t like Feminism

The other day in a class I was teaching, we were talking about the various words we use to talk about the different types of prejudice we sometimes have for certain people or groups of people.  Of course we got to the topic of “Islamophobia”, which is a term I don’t like, and I don’t …

Does Christianity Preach Equality?

Yes.  No.  Sort of.  But not really. Ouch, he went there.  First of all, I should qualify.  There are a myriad of ways in which we interpret the word “equality”.  Some of us confuse it was “equity”, which is similar, but different.  Some of us interpret it as “fairness”, which shares some characteristics, but isn’t …