Oct
21
Geoffrey Chaucer isn’t the only one who Hath a Blog
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Now Fr. Stephen Freeman has one, too. Check it out at Glory to God for All Things. Regular readers will recognize Fr. Stephen as one of the contributors at Pontifications.
Oct
21
Pontificator to become Pontifical
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Well, at least in the sense of being officially under the authority of the Pontiff–sorry to get folks’ hopes up like that. See his announcement at Pontifications.
Oct
21
More Thoughts on the History of Torture
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve just noticed that Mike Liccione at Sacramentum Vitae has posted some rather helpful thoughts on the same topic that I was just discussing in the previous post on Shawn McElhinney’s take on the relationship between torture and the history of the Church’s teaching. As usual Mike displays greater patience and charity than I, along [...]
Oct
21
Who Speaks for the Church?
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I. Shawn McElhinney, whose blog Rerum Novarum I rather like and read rather often, has taken a position regarding the torture question that strikes me as grounded in reasons that are, for him, uncharacteristic. In a series of posts he has made an argument to the effect that it is not, in fact, the teaching [...]
