From the Los Angeles Times: In a move that some called historic, the county’s oldest African American civil rights group voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage. The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People passed a resolution supporting gay marriage at a meeting of its board of directors in Miami, saying it opposed any [...]
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Descent Into Hell: NAACP Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
Posted in Black History Month, Dignity, Uncategorized, tagged NAACP, Same-Sex Marriage on May 21, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Bioethics: Possible Roles of Guilt and Shame in Fueling the Culture of Death
Posted in Dignity, Lent, Uncategorized on April 6, 2012 | 8 Comments »
“We become what we think we are.” That was the constant admonition of my life’s mentor, Father Luke McCann. Luke was genius, and constantly ahead of the curve by 20 years in everything. As with so much he taught me, I am still unpacking the depth of it all almost twenty years later. “We become [...]
Belated Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Light on the blogging the past month. Our children are all superb Irish Step dancers and had a recital today. It was a great afternoon. In honor of my Irish ancestors, a Muppet classic:
Rethinking Ash Wednesday
Posted in Lent, Uncategorized on February 23, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Some of the loudest lamentations of this penitential season come not from the laity, but from the clergy. Specifically, the churches packed on Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday when people who don’t darken a church door all year arrive, “to get something for free.” I understand their frustration and also see within it a missed [...]
Correcting the Record on My Open Letter to Cardinal Dolan: I’m the Author
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2012 | 26 Comments »
On Friday afternoon I wrote an open letter to Cardinal Dolan here at Coming Home. As has been our working practice, Steven Ertelt at Lifenews.com reposted my piece at his site almost immediately that afternoon (changing the title, as is his custom). What Steven neglected to do was give me attribution as the author of [...]
Obama’s Tactical Retreat and Cardinal Dolan’s White Flag
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan appeared on CBS to discuss the HHS mandate. While he signaled strength in one area, fighting the mandate, he signaled weakness in a few others. Not surprisingly, this morning the White House is floating some trial balloons in how to walk this back until after the elections. To be clear, all [...]
An Open Letter to Susan G. Komen Founder, Nancy Brinker
Posted in Breast Cancer, Planned Parenthood, Uncategorized, tagged Defunding, Nancy Brinker, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen on February 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Dear Ms. Brinker, As one who has been at odds with SGK over your organization’s funding of Planned Parenthood, I write today to offer you my heartfelt gratitude and congratulations for the principled and prudential position that you have taken in defunding Planned Parenthood. Having lost many family members to cancer, and having several close [...]
Komen Wants Out of the Planned Parenthood Leper Colony
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Uncategorized, tagged ABC Link, Breast Cancer, Defund, Oral Contraceptives, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The first paper I ever wrote in graduate school was a review of the literature on Leprosy. It is a disease transmitted by contact that we now know to be caused by a close first cousin of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, and can be cured using the same antibiotics that we use against TB. [...]
Archbishop Chaput Addressing the Growing Aggressive Eugenics in Fetal Medicine
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, Eugenics, Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Archbishop Chaput, Disability, Eugenics, Fetal Medicine on January 27, 2012 |
Hot on the heels of our medical conference last Saturday, Therapeutic Advances in Poor Prenatal Diagnoses, comes this letter from Archbishop Chaput to the people of his archdiocese. Opposition to this new eugenics is swelling all over the nation. Here is a bishop who makes me proud of my Church. Earlier this week local media [...]
Praising God Through Adversity
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2011 | 9 Comments »
File this one under, “Thinking Out Loud.” As years go 2011 has by all measures been a deeply challenging year for me. In the tragedy department, this year has been one that makes the law of averages work, making up for the many years of relatively smooth sailing. A recap and an analysis seem to [...]
Coming Home’s Top Ten for 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Top 10 on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
To say that it’s been quite a year would be an understatement. Looking back over the year, I’ve looked at Coming Home’s statistics to see what the top ten blog posts were in terms of traffic. Almost all were articles dealing with priest’s travails: Father Corapi and Father Pavone. Rather than leaving it at that, [...]
Coming Home is Two Years Old Today
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It was two years ago today that I began this undertaking with great trepidation and an even greater assurance that nobody would ever discover the blog. Jill Stanek, who knew better, along with her moderators Bethany and Carla really encouraged me to step out of the boat. Jill gave Coming Home a beautiful write-up two [...]
Book Review: A Special Mother Is Born
Posted in Dignity, Uncategorized, tagged A Special Mother Is Born, Book Review, Leticia Velasquez on November 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Over a year ago, friend, Catholic blogger and co-founder of KIDS (Keep Infants with Down Syndrome), Leticia Velasquez asked if I would be interested in contributing a chapter to an anthology of stories by parents of special needs children, A Special Mother Is Born. It was a book a couple of years in the making, [...]
Gardasil: What About the Boys?
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Uncategorized, tagged Boys, Gardasil on October 31, 2011 | 24 Comments »
This is a mess. It’s also one of the thorniest questions in vaccination medicine to have surfaced in a long time. From the outset, it must be clear that I am neither endorsing, nor dismissing the question of vaccinating boys. Get a cup of coffee, and let’s kick this one around for a bit. The [...]
Day Nine: Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes for Jon and the Other Victims
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2011 |
This isn’t how we hoped this novena would conclude. Jon entered his eternal rest yesterday. The need for prayers for the victims continues. Four human beings perished as a result of this accident. Two others face a long road back to health, and countless others have been shattered by the experience. We know that God [...]
