His trip was undoubtedly successful. Even those of us who are blessed with a profound and deep disrespect for what religion is all about found him a fascinating aberration to watch. For institutions built on faith, there is little higher praise.
But he tripped and fell towards the end like so many others have and will likely get a headache from this stumble (just as have past SCOTUS members, BTW).
It is painfully clear that he, like the other men left by uncertain organizations to their own devices, do not understand sex, identity issues and women are all about. He and most formal religions continue to get hung up on past ignorances and ill-informed attitudes, laying traps for their own logic.
To end his great Norte Americano trip by saying little more than offering platitudes and promises that he will do better on sexual abuse, and then by adding on that elected officials can blatantly discriminate in behaviors like marriage equality that make their beliefs uncomfortable … hummm ... these are the signs of much learning that even a godsend needs to do.
It is possible that the Catholic Church can do better. It's people hide behind better knowledge. They should, could and would do more if the wisdom of these masses was unleashed with the added faith of women and persons of various human orientation. To pretend that these issues can be left hanging on old precepts is a big, hurtful weakness … and it could end up being the source of his ultimate downfall.
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