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When Pope emeritus Benedict XVI assumed office at the Vatican, one of his most painful acknowledgements was that there were many failures in the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy and transgressions of faithful, saying: “Man sometimes falls to the ‘lowest, vulgar levels’ and sinks ‘into the swamp of sin and dishonesty’.”
Then again, Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard wrote a few years ago that “Journalism is a character defect... It is a life lived at a safe remove: standing off to one side of the parade as it passes, noting its flaws, offering glib and unworkable suggestions for its improvement.”
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