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January 2017

January 31, 2017
One of the most frustrating things over the past couple of days has been watching...
January 30, 2017
Last week was the 10th anniversary of my sister Kristen's death. I wrote a piece...
January 16, 2017
A lot of you are probably aware of the “spoon theory” of chronic illness. For...
January 11, 2017
Recently I was talking to a friend about various difficulties in the spiritual life, and...
January 09, 2017
My talk from last year's Q conference is currently featured on their web-site. The main...

December 2016

December 06, 2016
I've mostly said what I have to say about the dubia, but there is one...
December 05, 2016
Last time on Catholic Authenticity, we were talking about development of doctrine, specifically in reference...
December 02, 2016
Rebecca Bratten Weiss has recently written a post about modesty culture. This is an area...
December 01, 2016
The controversy over the treatment of communion for the divorced and remarried in Amoris Leatitia...
December 01, 2016
We have a game at our house that we occasionally play as part of our...

November 2016

November 30, 2016
I mentioned in a fairly recent post that I suffer from seasonal depression. It's not...
November 28, 2016
Is the only true way to deal with a homosexual inclination to “crucify” it? This...
November 26, 2016
Years ago, when I moved in more traditionalist Catholic circles, I recall often encountering the...
November 24, 2016
Winter has come to Canada and we're having a run of snow-days. My older kids...
November 23, 2016
It's nearing Christmas time, and an article from Aleteia is making the rounds again –...
November 18, 2016
My recent post, Wayward Creatures, dealt with one aspect of the problem of suffering –...
November 17, 2016
It's transgender awareness week. A lot of my trans friends are afraid right now: it's...
November 16, 2016
  In a recent piece, I discussed how liberal expressions of rage and fear can...
November 15, 2016
One of the issues that arose in the comments from yesterday's post is the question...
November 14, 2016
Last May, the publication of Laudato Si stirred up a scandal that I've been wrestling...
November 12, 2016
I mentioned recently that my best friend came to visit, and that we put on...
November 12, 2016
Over the past week I've seen a lot of discussion about grief – most of...
November 11, 2016
I've never been one of those people who gets worked up about the deaths of...
November 11, 2016
Obviously the answer is 'yes'. Most of the people that I know and love in...
November 10, 2016
A lot of my American friends are grieving the election of Donald Trump. I don't...
November 08, 2016
As you may have noticed, I haven't blogged much in the past month. To a...

October 2016

October 08, 2016
Following the recent revelations about Trump, the Republican Party is scrambling for a new presidential...
October 08, 2016
Yesterday, I talked about the problem with what the Church calls “gender ideology,” that is,...
October 07, 2016
There have been a couple of recent statements from Pope Francis about gender ideology. He...

September 2016

September 28, 2016
It's many years ago now that I faced my first election as a Catholic. I...
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