The Pastor in Rome | National Catholic Reporter

The Pastor in Rome | National Catholic Reporter  MSW.  MGB: You can put lipstick on the Inquisition, but it is still the Inquisition.  It is interesting that the agency charged with protecting the young from doctrinal impurity is now trying to protect them from predators.  The latter is far more important.  As for doctrinal truth - we learn more every day from history and archeology.  Let us hope that the Inquisition is friendly to those contributions, even if they change how we understand certain things.  While some doctrine is based on finally coming to agreement on doctrine, other historically based findings can be improved upon with science - and that goes doubly for those items which rely on natural law.  Indeed, how the Inquisition and the Pope treat natural law will determine whether it will long endure as other than a fringe movement.