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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This stuff is way above my head, but if ever there was a case of evil just being evil, child abuse and subsequent cover up is it.
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