Letters to the Editor
Pope’s Point
In a recent issue is an article by Rebecca Terrell entitled “The Truth About the Catholic Clergy Abuse Scandal” (December 10, 2018 issue). A clarification is needed in an otherwise interesting article.
After referring to church history, she writes, “What a striking contrast to the current pontiff’s response when queried about sodomitical priests in 2013. ‘Who am I to judge?’ he shrugged.”
What the pope actually said was, “Who am I to judge him?” He had been speaking about a single case of a man who, despite his homosexual proclivities, was sincerely trying to extricate himself from it all. Unfortunately, the man would occasionally lapse into sin, much against his own desire. So the pope was saying that he would be slow to condemn such a man, and would be slow to pass judgment on the state of that man’s soul.
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