Eduardo Peñalver asks what I’ve been asking at Commonweal:

For the past few evenings, I’ve been watching this documentary on Bush’s torture policies.  I highly recommend it.  But as I watch it, I frequently think to myself that the rhetoric some bishops (and Cardinals) are preemptively unleashing against Obama on abortion would be easier for me to stomach if they had raised an outcry that was even remotely as emphatic about the officially sanctioned use of torture by the outgoing administration.  You know, intrinsic evils and all that.