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The Limits of Moral Outrage

In these days of widespread – including my own – moral outrage at sacerdotal pedophilia and episcopal cover-up, this sentence from Richard Rohr’s The Naked Now stopped me in my moralistic tracks: “Moral outrage at the ideas of others hardly ever serves God’s purposes, only our own.” (p. 132) Rohr is right, uncomfortably but also [...]

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