Why Do Catholics Contracept and What Can the Church Do about It?

Someday I’ll write a post about lies, damned lies, and statistics so you will know that the “98% of Catholic women use artificial birth control” you’ve seen bandied about as though it were gospel is a distorted statistic turned damned lie.  I’ve already written one in which I touched on how it doesn’t matter if [...]

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It’s Religious Freedom, Stupid

The Catholic Church is supposed to proclaim the truth, not reflect the culture. So IT DOES NOT MATTER if every single Catholic woman in America uses artificial birth control. (They don’t, by the way.  And that 98% figure that the media is flinging around is . . . shall we say . . . imprecise.  [...]

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Martin Luther King and Abortion

 This was, I believe, my last column for the East Tennessee Catholic, published right around this time last year.  Since I participated in the Martin Luther King Parade this morning and plan to March for Life next weekend, it seems like a good time to reprint it.  Our small delegation from Immaculate Conception’s Social Justice [...]

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Big Catholic Families

I’m posting this column reprint as a followup to my “Why Stop at Two” post of a few weeks ago.  In that post, I talked about why we’ve chosen to have a big family; this post focuses on the Catholic Church’s teachings on family size.  This was too long for the East Tennessee Catholic in [...]

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Books that change lives

I want to do some book blogging here from time to time.  I’ll share some of the books that have been important in my life, or that inspire me, or that I just enjoy.  And I hope that in the comments you will share some of your favorites as well.  The topic today is the [...]

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The Secret to a Happy Life

The following is a reprint of a column that appeared in The East Tennessee Catholic in 2002. When I was pregnant with my third child, friends, family, and strangers in the mall all seemed desperate to know: “Was it planned?” At first I answered, “I’d have to be crazy to plan this.”  (I had a [...]

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