Is it not amazing that lying, deceit, fraud – whatever you want to call it – is not listed among the Catholic Church’s traditional Seven Deadly Sins? And here we see it still cannot shake a scandal whose deeper meaning is obvious: an utterly insufficient commitment to truth, truth at any cost, truth even if it is embarrassing and painful and hurts the public image of the Church.
There should be nine deadly sins, not seven.
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funnily enough, it’s not really among the ten commandments either, for bearing false witness against one’s neighbor is far narrower than lying.