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COVID-19 vaccination has a terrible unreported side effect: amnesia.  Not a medical amnesia, but an amnesia of the heart. With more than 50% of U.S. adults receiving at least one vaccination dose, it seems everyone is celebrating “going back to normal.” Along with that comes a seemingly willful insistence that “personal freedom” has been inconvenienced […]

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Your Excellencies, I appreciate your principled pro-life stance, suspending public celebrations of mass following appropriate epidemiological guidance to impede transmission of COVID-19 to the most vulnerable among us. I implore you, in light of the misguided “Give Us Back the Sacraments” media campaign, NOT to cave to political and lay pressure to end these precautions […]

For ordinary Catholic Christians looking for appropriate action to repair our Church, I encourage you to click on the resources below, and use the following email template to contact your the clergy and pastoral staff of your local parish, diocese, and catholic media outlets. E-MAIL TEMPLATE Father- Catholic laity – both men and women – […]

In time for National Poetry Month, BLUING, my first chapbook of poetry is now available to pre-order from Finishing Line Press. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/bluing-by-christopher-buckley/ Wait a minute… Chris writes? POEMS?! [Yes, and I read them too!] If you’ve been to StoryWiseGuy before, you’ll know I write in the intersection of faith, fatherhood, conscience, and geek culture. About […]

My latest entry at the Catholic Bibles blog, this time on an obscure edition of the Knox Bible from last century. Though different than my usual StoryWiseGuy fare, I do reference Star Trek, Star Wars, Tolkien, Harry Potter, and Graham Greene. I’ll link to it here in case it’s of interest. Feel free to check it […]