![]() So unless the Pope is arguing that moral principles themselves are generally unclear (which is necessarily false), then I continue to wonder why he so often speaks about a church that (in my experience) largely disappeared fifty years ago. A very recent example is the Pope’s lament about the tendency of confessors to see moral issues in black and white when, in fact, “the shades of gray prevail in life.”īut in my experience, at least, most priests are well aware of the distinction between moral principles and the stresses, weaknesses, misunderstandings, and personal situations which make those principles difficult to implement as thoroughly as we would like. One case I used to illustrate this danger was the observation that Pope Francis often speaks as if he perceives the Church and the world through the cultural lens of the 1960s. Free eBook: Liturgical Year 2023-2024, Vol. ![]()
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