Sun, 24.Apr 2005

• The German Shepherd and the Salvadoran Pastor #

  “My problem with the newly minted pope on this issue is that by lying—lying, I suspect, as much to himself as to the rest of us—he cut himself off from understanding the difficult moral choices people face. By lying about it now, he shows that he’s still unwilling to face the complexity of moral choice. Whatever understandable lack of physical courage he displayed as a teenager is trumped a thousand times over by moral cowardice today.”