tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post2617001772630587186..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Still Crazy, After All These YearsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-89430387053568979952010-03-24T12:51:30.534-05:002010-03-24T12:51:30.534-05:00I am appalled at your lack of nuance in treating t...I am appalled at your lack of nuance in treating this article. The selected quotation from the Cardinal is hardly an implication of the thesis of the paper's author - he rather draws an inference from the fact that Schoenborn suggests we need to look at the whole issue.<br /><br />The issue of priestly maturity and training in celibacy <i>is</i> a relevant issue to the problem of priestly pedophilia, not because it causes it, but rather because something in our training and selection processes are still letting these people through.<br /><br />What ever happened to the charitable mode of argument that gives anyone the best possible reading of their statement? Why the cynicism, especially considering that this is, as you point out, the author of the Catechism of the Catholic Church?<br /><br />For my part, it's harder to imagine the good Card. himself espousing such a strange idea than it is for me to imagine a media source unjustly spinning a comment to create some controversy...Joe Grabowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696215890270543320noreply@blogger.com