Gary Wills on The Catholic Church and Its Many Sins

Taryn Mattice has called my attention to Gary Wills powerful critique of the Catholic Church. It is all about the scope of the sex abuse scandal, the craven need to preserve authority, the so-called “natural law” justifications for a wide variety of unpersuasive positions on sex, and the role that the laity ought to be playing in combatting the overreaching and worse of the hierarchy. To be sure, Gary Wills is not a master of understatement. But his criticism is smart, sharp, well written, with breakouts of humor. It is well worth the read. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/23/the-priesthood-of-the-big-crazy/

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