Introduction Not all Catholics take the flagrant line of rejecting authority. Some try to portray themselves as perfectly willing to follow...

The defenders of torture are still at it, offering all sorts of scenarios as to what sort of circumstances might justify it. "What if ...

Preliminary Note This article is not going to deal with the allegations of the Senate Report on CIA torture and whether or not they are tru...

With the recent report out on torture, I find that some Catholics are attempting to justify it, even though the Church declares it as being ...

On  Facebook, there's an argument on a couple of dueling Catholic articles on Waterboarding and torture (a subject that I explored a few...

On  Facebook, there's an argument on a couple of dueling Catholic articles on Waterboarding and torture (a subject that I explored a few...

[EDIT: In the years since I wrote this, I found an argument that convinces me that waterboarding falls under torture. Basically, we can sum...

[EDIT: In the years since I wrote this, I found an argument that convinces me that waterboarding falls under torture. Basically, we can sum...