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Anthony S. Layne

Anthony S. Layne is a former managing editor and contributing writer for Catholic Stand. A resident of Denton, Texas, he is a customer service representative for a major home lender and an officer of the parish Knights of Columbus council. Although he has no wife or children, he takes great pride in his fantastic nieces and nephews.

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Orchid, Eugenics, and the “Acorn and Oak” Fallacy

Orchid, Eugenics, and the “Acorn and Oak” Fallacy

Genomic testing laboratories are surprised to discover that they are practicing eugenics because they have mentally disconnected the embryo from the rest of humanity.,
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Poverty and the Catholic Way of Mercy

Poverty and the Catholic Way of Mercy

There’s a Catholic way to think about poverty, a pattern shared by some people from other religious traditions.
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Coronavirus: It's Just a Little Pandemic

Coronavirus: It's Just a Little Pandemic

The panic over coronavirus reminds me of a story:
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What the Super Bowl LIV Half-Time Show Can Teach Christians

What the Super Bowl LIV Half-Time Show Can Teach Christians

“What is modesty?” One might very well ask this in the same tone of voice that Pontius Pilate most likely used when he asked Jesus, “What is truth?” — world-weary, cynical, and uninterested.
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The Fool and the Intellectual

The Fool and the Intellectual

I am not an intellectual. At least, I hope not. If someone should accuse me of being an intellectual, I should examine my conscience for the behavior that led them to such a conclusion and, on finding it, repent my sin. All the same, it is true that for much of my life I aspired to be considered an intellectual. Even now, that aspiration lies in my soul waiting to trip me up.
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We Have Bishops, But Where Are the Leaders?

We Have Bishops, But Where Are the Leaders?

The single greatest problem within the episcopate is not clericalism.
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Robots can't sin. That's why they would make lousy priests.

Robots can't sin. That's why they would make lousy priests.

The program I use to compose and arrange music has a tool which will take a passage from one instrument and create accompaniment for other instruments out of it. Arrangement is a complex task which can turn a simple folk tune into a lush orchestral symphony or reduce a well-known classical piece to a New Orleans jazz combo (as Harry Connick, Jr. did with “Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies”).
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Stop Holding Your Nose and Start Speaking Out

Stop Holding Your Nose and Start Speaking Out

There’s an old Latin legal maxim: Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit (Whoever is silent, when he is able and ought to speak, must be seen to consent). The other side of this coin is Martin Niemöller’s haunting poem, “First they came …”.
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Why the Personhood Issue Matters

Why the Personhood Issue Matters

Thus ends Rebecca Bratten Weiss’ May 16 article, “It’s Time to Move Past the Pro-Life / Pro-Choice Dividing Line.” I should make it clear that I often agree with Bratten Weiss in the substance of what she says even when I sometimes wince or cringe over the manner in which she expresses it.
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Let Them Eat Steak: Our Unchristian Contempt for the Poor

Let Them Eat Steak: Our Unchristian Contempt for the Poor

The story goes that a schnorrer (a Jewish professional beggar) managed to get some money for “eppes to eat” from a fellow on the street. He then turned to the nearest deli, sat down, and ordered a bagel with cream cheese and lox.
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Lessons We (Probably) Won't Learn From the Coventry Catholic Debacle

Lessons We (Probably) Won't Learn From the Coventry Catholic Debacle

Believe it or not, this is my fifth attempt at this article on the confrontation between Nathan Phillips of the Omaha Tribe and the Covington Catholic High students. (I had actually submitted the fourth attempt, only to retract it when some last developments came up. The perils of commenting on current events as they unfold.)
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Just Another New Year's Eve: A Reflection on Communion and Community

Just Another New Year's Eve: A Reflection on Communion and Community

On December 31, as others are preparing to ring in the new year by getting plowed on mixed drinks, I will most likely be writing or editing an article. Most of my friends live 700 miles and more away, while the rest will likely have dinner parties on New Year’s Day rather than drinks on New Year’s Eve.
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The Sherlockismus and the Silence of Jesus

The Sherlockismus and the Silence of Jesus

In his 1911 tongue-in-cheek essay, “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes,” Msgr. Ronald Knox coined the term Sherlockismus to describe “a special kind of epigram,” an ambiguous statement that is nevertheless memorable.
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Chasing People Out of the Church

Chasing People Out of the Church

Let me put forth a hypothetical case: Let’s say there is a popular Catholic writer who’s also a bank robber. In many respects, the writer’s articles are orthodox and respectful of the Church leadership.
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The Duty to Avoid Scandal

The Duty to Avoid Scandal

I’ve already written elsewhere on the recent kerfuffle over the CCC 2267 rescript. In light of the recent scandals—in fact, in light of the last 16 years—I submit that CCC 2489 also needs some clarifying revision.
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