Virtue In Babylon: The Prequels
Links to previously-published + off-Substack writing. Also one podcast.
Links organized by publication and date.
Mini-essays previously scattered across the Twitterverse will eventually be hunted down, potentially revised and/or expanded, then posted separately.
Note: This list may be updated in the future, adding links to other external publications as they happen. In that event, the “Prequels” title may eventually be adjusted… or not! TBD. Originally published: June 2024. Last updated: October 2024.
Spiritual Friendship
Crying Out To Heaven For Vengeance: Catholic Reflections on Scripture, Sodom, and Justice (October 1, 2018)
Intrinsic Evil and Disorder: How To Misunderstand the Catholic Catechism (April 15, 2019)
On Proper Pride (September 18, 2019)
CLSA Advisory Opinions
On The Reception of Holy Communion By Individuals In A Same-Sex Civil Union (2022)
On The Reception of Holy Communion by Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals (2022)
Regarding Admittance To Holy Orders For A Homosexual Man (2023)
On Blessings for Couples in Irregular Unions in Light of Fiducia Supplicans (2024)
New Kinship (Podcast)
formerly named “Communion & Shalom”
#37 - Judge Daniel Quinan: The Telos of Sex and (Catholic) Marriage (November 29, 2023)
Chris Damian Writes
Failed Formation: Archbishop Naumann’s Response to a Gay Couple (March 26, 2019)
On Material Racism: A Primer for Catholics (June 10, 2020)
Catechesis, Policy and “Gender Theory” in Milwaukee: An Informal Commentary (February 15, 2022)
Ragtag And Bobtail
published under the pseudonym “Andrew Ganner”
Back to the Beginning: A Catholic View of Columbus (October 12, 2020)
Flawed Heroes, Mixed Legacies: The Complexity of Columbus (October 11, 2021)
Questions Liturgiques
“Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa”: The Confiteor, the Council, and the Code (Volume 94, 2013)
Academic Theses
On Legitimate Coercion and the Doctrine of Religious Freedom (JCL Thesis, Catholic University of America, 2014)
A Defense of the Substantial Unity of Living Organisms In Light of Modern Physics and Biochemistry (Liberal Arts BA Thesis, Thomas Aquinas College, 2010)