A posting by canonist Edward Peters at In the Light of the Law — later repeated at American Catholic — argues that Bishop Hubbard of Albany is guilty of formal cooperation in grave evil, by approving the use of a needle exchange program for drug addicts. The argument by Peters is, however, substantially lacking.
For formal [...]

What does the Catholic Church teach about torture?
The teaching is most clearly found in the encyclical Veritatis Splendor #80, which says:
Reason attests that there are objects of the human act which are by their nature “incapable of being ordered” to God, because they radically contradict the good of the person made in his image. These [...]

Over at Catholic and Enjoying It!, Mark Shea has again insisted that he has indeed defined what torture is — though once again indicating that anyone wanting a definition of torture is somehow being deliberately obtuse, or worse.
One of the funnier falsehood current is the claim that I “refuse to define” what torture is and [...]