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When my wife asked me on white smoke day if Cardinal Bergoglio was a conservative or a liberal, I replied truthfully. “Better. He’s a Jesuit.”
The Catholic Herald, which still lives mostly in the rose-colored era, linked this editorial from The Guardian:
It’s undeniable. Was St John Paul right to be concerned about communism? He lived under it for half his adult life. When does prudent concern cross the line into obsession and imbalance?
How to interpret the cause of Oscar Romero, the santo subito martyr of El Salvador? Giving succor to the enemy? Giving inspiration to the oppressed? At any rate, the cause is “unblocked,” and there’s comment at the Daily Beast about it.
Perhaps it was prudence. It may well have been something more profane. Simple human blindness to virtue. At worst, a jealousy. At best, a refusal to perceive more deeply past the
human labels we place on people in a very human way.
Even a “good” Catholic country with a “good” hierarchy approved by “good” popes can produce a very bad apple. If nothing else, it reminds us all that sin is quite pervasive, regardless of any human campaign to maximize virtue by a particular definition.
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Todd lives in Minnesota, serving a Catholic parish as a lay minister.