January 2019
The Playground for Homosexuals
December 2018
Published in Logos: A Catholic Perspective on Homoerotic Desire
Parenthood and the Voice of Conscience
The Zero-Sum Clergy Abuse Game
November 2018
A Doctrine that Bends and Sways
Fatherless in a Church of Fathers
October 2018
The woman under the bus: sexual violence and legal liability
Can we drink this cup? Nouwen and the abuse crisis
September 2018
A gay Catholic apologist in the scandal
I, too, am responsible: reflections on the abuse crisis
Catholics: don’t ask for “change”
Young adults on the crisis: transparency and reporting
Young adults on the crisis: transparency and formation
Young adults on the crisis: despair and hope
August 2018
Correcting myself: the Catechism, homosexuality, and seminary admission
YArespond: Learn more about the Catholic abuse crisis
Ban abuse survivors from seminary
Blaming homosexuality: chastity, suicide, and the abuse crisis
Courage and Freud: So what can be done?
Courage and Freud: Why is Catholicism committed to a Freudian ministry for homosexuals?
Courage and Freud: The John Jay Report
Courage and Freud: You can’t refute Freud
Courage and Freud: Are homosexuals just lesser men?
What do you mean, “crisis”? We have (at least) three.
Catholic Young Adults Discuss: Cardinal McCarrick
Banning gay seminarians won’t end gay priests
Heterosexual clergy who touch other men
4 things I realized at ReVoice
July 2018
Are gay priests to blame for the clergy abuse crisis?
From the ReVoice Conference: My Life in Community
Christian Kitsch and Basement Desires
June 2018
Gay Christians: Maybe Don’t Date
Do our married friends leave us behind?
May 2018
Pressure Cooker and Potted Plant
Catholicism, Pornography, and Homosexuality
Catholics Discuss: Can Gay Catholics Hold Hands?
April 2018
But What if Celibacy Harms my Mental Health?
Catholic Young Adults Discuss: Homosexuality
What to Expect with Heartbreak
March 2018
For Christian Gays and their “Conscientious Objectors”
Gay Catholic Ministry: Contact Your Diocese
February 2018:
You Can’t Lie on Facebook, 2: On ‘Safe Spaces’
You Can’t Lie on Facebook, 1: The Language of Mental Illness
Why Catholics Should See ‘Call Me by Your Name’
Audio: Eros and Asceticism in Francis of Assisi
January 2018:
But if it smells like a marriage…
The Blessing of “Same-Sex Unions”
The Victim III: The Gay Christian Victim
The Victim II: Anne Frank’s Paradox of Freedom
The Victim I: Who Are the Victims?
Catholic Young Adults Discuss Chastity
Why I Call Myself a “Gay Catholic”
For All the Single Ladies: Against Settling
December 2017:
Gender and Charity III: What Gender?
Gender and Charity II: Gender of the Soul
Gender and Charity I: On Stereotypes
Catholic Young Adults Discuss Gender
November 2017:
4 Tips for the Craft of Writing
Songwriting (And Supposedly Straight White Boys)
To Parents, From a Gay Christian Son
October 2017:
Philosophy, contra Milo Yiannopoulos
Mindy Kaling and National Coming Out Day
September 2017:
Being Celibate, Christian, and Gay…
I Have a Boyfriend. Want to Talk About It?
August 2017
Gay, Catholic, Objectified by the Church
Discrimination in the Catholic Church
July 2017
Autonomy and the Catholic University
Do We Want Gay Christians to be Chaste?
What We Get Wrong About Chastity
June 2017
Reviewing Fr. Martin’s Reviewers: The LGBT Community and the Catholic Church
Homosexuality: the Church doesn’t know what She’s talking about
Gay Catholic Dating: Sin or Heartbreak
Is the catechism homophobic? Depends on who’s reading it
In Praise of “Lame Jobs,” and Against Prestige
Dear Future Person in My Current Position
May 2017
Dr. Lu on Same-Sex Attraction: Stories and Embrace
Dr. Lu on Same-Sex Attraction: Rival Versions of Truth
Dr. Lu on Same-Sex Attraction: Mimetic Opposition
Dr. Lu on Same-Sex Attraction: A Response
April 2017
March 2017
Some resources on Catholicism and homosexuality ( + my new book!)
November 2016
After the election (and the story of a great fire)
October 2016
May 2015
The Absurdity of Non-Transgenderism: A Critique of a Critique (Ethika Politika)
October 2014
4 Elements of a Mature Adjustment to Celibacy (Spiritual Friendship)
August 2014
Coming Out and Being Open (Spiritual Friendship)
Fear and Celibacy (Spiritual Friendship)
The Awkward Avoidance of Biblical Interpretation
July 2014
When All Gay Desire is a Desire for Gay Sex (Spiritual Friendship)
The Labor of Love (Spiritual Friendship)
June 2014
A Love that Fills, and a Love that Opens (Spiritual Friendship)
On Erotic Interruptions, and the Lovesick God (Spiritual Friendship)
May 2014
The Desirability of Truth (Spiritual Friendship)
Noticing the Unnoticed: Some things I’ve learned from being loved (Spiritual Friendship)
“Just Get Married” and Other Uncaring Advice (Spiritual Friendship)
After the Third Way… (Spiritual Friendship)
Infantile Questioning and the Contemporary Theologian
On Gay Jokes, and Friendship versus Presumption (Spiritual Friendship)
April 2014
Justice and the Band of Robbers
On the “Being a Woman” Argument in Abortion Debates
A Ministry to the Hateful and Hated (Spiritual Friendship)
February 2014
Learning to See (Spiritual Friendship)
January 2014
Celibacy and Loneliness (Spiritual Friendship)
On Coming Out and Being Known (Spiritual Friendship)
On the Potential of those who Rape
Marriage and Society: A Response to Michael Bradley, Part 2 (Ethika Politika)
Marriage and Society: A Response to Michael Bradley, Part 1 (Ethika Politika)
Homosexuality and Friendship: A Response to Austin Ruse (Crisis Magazine)
December 2013
Homosexuality and the Resurrection of Disability (Spiritual Friendship)
Defining Marriage Isn’t Defending Marriage (Intercollegiate Review)
November 2013
The Education of a Gay Catholic (Spiritual Friendship)
October 2013
On No Longer Being a “Conservative”
Candida Moss on the Socialist Jesus
September 2013
Book Recommendations for Undergrads Considering Law School
The “coming out” of Christian doctrine (Spiritual Friendship)
The meaning of vocation (Spiritual Friendship)
So how should you respond when someone tells you a story like mine? (Spiritual Friendship)
This is ‘gay’ (Spiritual Friendship
My Early Education (Spiritual Friendship)
Why am I saying this? Why now? (Spiritual Friendship)
This is Me (Spiritual Friendship)
July 2013
Pope Francis’ Lesson on Persuasion
A Theory of Sexual Attraction: Part 2
A Theory of Sexual Attraction: Part 1
The Small-Mindedness of Atheism
On Christian Children in the Public Schools
June 2013
The Problem of “Catholics for Equality”
Newman, and the development of Catholic teaching on abortion and homosexuality
A Letter to the Philosophy Department at Notre Dame
The Paradox of an Education in Philosophy
May 2013
Done with college, and today I’m… disappointed
April 2013
Merits of the Gargantuan Family
March 2013
Chivalry and Healthy Relationships
Losing to the Gay Rights Movement
Papa Franc and the Legacy of Bene
Idylls and Rambles, by Fr. Schall
A Guide for “Introduction to Philosophy”
February 2013
Our introduction to ‘philosophy’
The Church Annie Selak Wants: Part II
The Church Annie Selak Wants: Part I
From the archives: A Valentine for Catholic lovers
In Defense of Catholicism and Catholics at Notre Dame
From the archives: The Christian Menace
From the archives: The Church and Liberty
January 2013
Catholicism, Consent, and Notre Dame Football
Disney: Defying and Embracing Modern Arts
Kelly interviews, and it reveals more about us than it does about him
“The Gay Issue”: Objections and Clarifications
“The Gay Issue”: Notre Dame’s Plan
December 2012
“The Gay Issue”: Learning from the Pro-Life Movement
“The Gay Issue”: Broadening Same-Sex-Attraction
“The Gay Issue”: Newman and Michelangelo
“The Gay Issue”: Within Catholicism
“The Gay Issue”: On Terminology
November 2012
What is a Catholic University?
Death of a Catholic University?
October 2012
Professor Jim Sterba and the Arrogance of the Age
September 2012
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