The unavoidable coronavirus hype was the first topic in a verbose interview Francis gave to StudiaMoralia.org (September 29).
The interview was largely ignored. Francis calls the hype a “pandemic” repeating his mantra that every crisis makes us “better or worse.”
He launched an attack against the political hypocrisy of the U.S.: “It makes no sense for a nation to commit itself to giving a democratic political system to a poorer nation, and then to retain the use of its resources for itself.”
For Francis moral theology must help to understand those "sins" that the world no longer perceives as such. One wonders why “sins” is put in quotation marks, and which “sins” Francis has in mind.
He polemicises against the Jewish doctors of the law who reduce the law to cases which are “ultimately manoeuvrable depending on convenience.” However, this corresponds to the “case by case” casuistry advocated by Francis.
Francis romanticises that “you see the crude reality without mask” only from the “…More