The Hardened Hearts of the Catholic Right | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: What is the old saying? Wisdom from the mouths of babes and fools? The fools have spoken. I have to agree with them. Francis did not stress the magisterial weight or orthodoxy of his Exhortation because striving both is itself a fool's errand. By ignoring doctrinal change he recast the papacy in the humility it has sorely needed since the inane rantings of Piux IX. He put care of the sinner above everything else. I would have gone further and spoken out against the concept of sinfullness when dealing with problems of marriage or the happy trend toward gay marriage and away from the promiscuity of the bathhouse. That the Church seems to be hailing his approach shows that, while the fools may have teased out some of the trees, they again miss the forest.
Private to George Weigel and Cardinal Burke, et al. Yes, I called you fools.
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