Among the odd notes in B16’s letter on sex abuse crisis is where he offers an excursus on the proper reading of Mk 9:42 (better if a great millstone): not about innocent children, but protecting the faithful from the “intellectual arrogance of those who think they are clever.”
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Implication that he still thinks the greatest danger and source of scandal for the church comes from the nuns and theologians he investigated and silenced as head of the CDF.
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Yes I was struck by that. And by how canon law was imbalanced not by preferring rights of accused to rights of victims, but by not including faith as a good. Neither in his millstone reading or elsewhere are victims mentioned.
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As if: if only we could put this unpleasantness behind us and get back to the real business of defending the deposit of faith against secularism, relativism, and atheism. It was that orientation that caused the Vatican to miss the real scandal under their noses.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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