I actually agree with you on this point. But we shouldn't reject the useful doctrines of any organization simply because other doctrines are flawed to the point of being odious. Keep the baby, as it were, not the bathwater. And anyway, this is beside the point I was trying to make which was less about Catholicism than…

Actually, again, and please forgive my directness, you miss the point of Catholic doctrine - the non-interventionist God leaves one, as Milton put it, "sufficient to (stand) although free to fall." This sort of belief system is predicated upon the notion that we have free will, and this was one of the central…

I am not a Christian, nor am I a believer; however, I feel that it is the reasoning in this article - which is typical of most anti-theistic arguments against the reconciliation of the coequal magisteria - that misses the point. The Catholic church's - and again I must stress that I am neither a Christian nor a…

I didn't miss the endlessly scrolling blog. At all. The key word here is endless, and not in a good way. Sorry, this might be prettier, but it's grossly inefficient and makes reading older stories difficult. Ease of access should really trump aesthetics. Surely there is some way to provide an index of articles that…

Marijuana: Bad. Controversial. Mustn't give drugs to children.