Something important reared its seemingly ugly head last Wednesday and apparently I was asleep at the wheel. While poking around today, I got a peek at it.

From what I can piece together from Mark Shea’s and other blogs (and here) is this: Mark Shea was a guest on one of Relevant Radio’s shows (which one, I don’t know). The conversation turned to torture. Is it allowed? Is it ever appropriate? Etc. To Mark Shea’s surprise he found himself having to justify the Catholic Church’s teaching that torture is wrong. The host appeard to be equivocating on whether torture was allow according to Catholic moral teaching.

Mr. Shea was apparently so disturbed by the experience, he wrote an extensive blog post expressing how “appalled” he was by the experience. After Relevant Radio came back to Mr. Shea and informed him that the show would not play since they had always planned to use it as a demo, he pulled down his letter from his blog.

However, you will find Mark Shea’s original post copied at Maior Autem his est Caritas. You will also find Mark Shea’s thoughts on the experience here (look for the entry entitled “Where’d the Relevant Radio post go?”).

If anyone can shed any additional light on this, I’d appreciate hearing it. I’d also like to get your thoughts on this matter.

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