Billy Donovan’s Secret Sorrow

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It’s March. It’s Madness. And my Gators have just danced their way into the elite eight for the fourth year in a row! I’ve always admired and respected Florida’s head coach, Billy Donovan for the way he transformed the school’s basketball program into one of the country’s most dominating powerhouses. But I recently came across a story that profoundly deepened … Read More

TOB Tues: The Annunciation and the Theology of the Body

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This is certainly not the first thing that comes to our mind when we think of the annunciation, but when Mary accepts the message of Gabriel, her fiat is a yes to God’s plan for her sexuality: “Mary shows us how to accept the gift of our embodiedness, and this includes the God-given sex of the body. In this it … Read More

World Down Syndrome Day Quick Takes

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Today is World Down Syndrome Day, a day to celebrate the lives of those who have an extra 21st chromosome and raise awareness about the “good news” about DS This year, since I’ve written so much about this topic already, I thought I’d just offer a round-up of some of my favorite articles/posts over the years: World Down Syndrome Day … Read More

BioTalk, ep. 8: The Great GMO Disconnect

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What’s with society’s split personality when it comes to genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? Milk from a cloned cow is unnatural and unsafe, but injecting a human being with stem cells from their own (dead) clone is positive scientific progress? Why are we going to great lengths to regulate and raise awareness about the use of GMO in our food supply, … Read More

What’s Your Problem?

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Sport doesn’t care what your problem is: This is a great promo from Samsung for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, which are still going on right now. Who says you can’t be just as active and athletic with a disability? Yes, it takes a lot of hard work (does it not when you’re able bodied?). But, you’re only really “limited” … Read More

I Still Love Him

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Hard to believe it’s already been a year since I wrote this. Happy anniversary, Papa!! And thank you for continuing to preach the Gospel of Life in word and deed. “[B]ear witness to and disseminate this ‘culture of life’ … remind all, through actions and words, that in all its phases and at any age, life is always sacred and … Read More

More GMO Inconsistency

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My BioTalk partner-in-crime, Rebecca Taylor, has a new article at the National Catholic Register on the disconnect that many in our society seem to have when it comes to GMOs: So we live in a society where people are wary of eating meat or drinking milk from a cloned cow but support cloning human embryos (using the very same technique) … Read More

Jim Gaffigan: From “Loner” to Father of Five (and Counting?)

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) This is a great piece from CBS on comedian Jim Gaffigan about his family life. At the end of the interview Anthony Mason asks Gaffigan if he’s “done” having kids. To which he responds that, because he’s Catholic and his wife is a “shiite” Catholic, “there is no goalie” and he’s, “not opposed to it.” “I know the positives … Read More

The War on Humans

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For several years now, Wesley Smith has been warning that the animal rights movement is one of the greatest threats in our day to the dignity of the human person. This was the topic of his 2010 book A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. This month he … Read More

Audio: “Three-Parent Embryos” and Genetic Engineering

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Last week I was on the radio in Lexington, KY talking to Mike Allen about “three-parent embryos” and genetic engineering. Click the play button below to listen. I come on about 15 minutes into the program — in the second segment. http://www.reflectionsofaparalytic.com/audio/Mike-Allen-2014-02-27.mp3 This is serious stuff, y’all! We are on a threshold. Will we move forward in genetically-engineering our children? … Read More