The Catholic Answers website deals with various kinds of Catholic apologetics, and one of its resources is a Voter's Guide, which has occasionally been controversial. For example, a posting on the new blog Vox Nova recently complained about the Guide, though those complaints were rather outdated,  since they were aimed at what a version of the Guide used to say a few [...]

The Catholic Church has declared that torture is intrinsically — always — wrong. But it is not totally clear what constitutes torture, and what does not. The subject regularly crops on on places like Mark Shea's blog, which has still not come up with a useful definition. Instead, Mark offers four suggestions for coming up with [...]