1/ How many other bishops have been sanctioned for allegations presumably proved credible? What #Vatican genius dreamed this up? After the disastrous handling of the Theodore McCarrick (a monster if there ever was one) case, has the #HolySee learned nothing about transparency?
https://twitter.com/PillarCatholic/status/1575501025510707201
2/ This is rank clericalism at its worst. But it also reflects a widespread failure among many Vatican officials to understand basic principles of rule of law.
3/ Many clerics dismiss concern for rule of law as an "Anglo-Saxon" obsession. But rule of law is directly derived from principles of natural law - about which Catholic clerics (or at least those who aren't slaves to sociology and psychology) should know something about.
4/ It also reflects a disturbing tendency by some clerics to think that mercy somehow overrides the demands of truth and justice. It doesn't. Moreover, mercy detached from truth and justice is just mere sentimentalism and moral subjectivism.
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