Lane Core has posted an excerpt from the Catholic Encyclopedia on war and just war. A very interesting quote from it: Catholic philosophy, therefore, concedes to the State the full natural right of war, whether defensive, as in case of another?s... [Continue Reading]

My pastor is not very computer literate. I set him up with a new iMac and showed him how to get email and check web sites. I often get calls from him asking what such-and-such error message means and what not. I got a call from him the other day... [Continue Reading]

For those who want linkage between Saddam and Osama before they will support a war in Iraq, I have to ask if the linkage must be between Saddam and specific terrorists? What I mean is must we prove that Saddam is supporting the particular branch of... [Continue Reading]

A priest friend writes to say that what the Church should have been doing all along is to circulate press releases of the following type: The Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus announces with regret the fact that its confrere Fr... [Continue Reading]

An Italian Catholic news website L’Espresso online posts a nice compendium of eight articles addressing the topic of just war and how it applies to the situation of Iraq. Two of the articles are in Italian and thus, despite my name, unreadable... [Continue Reading]

Something that seems to be overlooked in all the news coverage of the bin Laden tape released yesterday is that he’s alive! Maybe people are remembering the last tape that was supposed to be from him and are forgetting that it later turned out... [Continue Reading]

I don’t do a lot of these quizzes but this one was pretty close. Toss the gin and replace it with vodka and it would be dead on.

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Ted Turner is not one of my favorite people. Besides his mocking and blasphemy against Christianity, he is a top supporter of international population control (i.e. abortion and birth control) and even once said that he regretted having five kids... [Continue Reading]

Fourteen people were killed in a Muslim hajj ritual yesterday. In 2001, 35 people were killed in the same ritual. In 1998, 119 died. It seems that every year people die during the ritual which includes throwing stones at a pillar that represents the... [Continue Reading]

I don’t remember any time since 9/11 that intelligence officials have been so specific about terrorist warnings. The closest thing I remember is a vague warning about attacks on bridges on the West Coast and even then that was because of leaks... [Continue Reading]