[ArrogantBustard]

This is insane:

First, al-Reuters makes a mountain out of a molehill. The interview some bishop, and talk about how timeless principles of morality apply to XXI Century society. This, they blow up as though someone had invented wholly new categories of moral principle. Nonsense!

Second, al-Reuters makes a molehill out of a mountain. That many nominal Catholics (and indeed folks in the West in general) have lost any sense of objective right and wrong, is a serious problem. They treat it almost as a joke.

[Bosco]

I took a look on the Vatican web site and found the source interview.

I wouldn't trust al-Reuters or AP to faithfully represent dog show results let alone real news.

Now all we need is an English translation.

[Bigg Red]

That many nominal Catholics (and indeed folks in the West in general) have lost any sense of objective right and wrong, is a serious problem. They treat it almost as a joke.

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You are so right about that.

On a related point, yesterday, my priest made the statement that the major failing of our generation for its children is that of not giving them a strong faith background, one that they can cling to when life presents them with difficulties large and small.

[Tax-chick]

That many nominal Catholics (and indeed folks in the West in general) have lost any sense of objective right and wrong, is a serious problem. They treat it almost as a joke.

That's because they lack the reasoning ability to conceptualize and then specifically identify objective right and wrong.