tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post1283779453394155384..comments2024-03-28T09:47:25.719-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: It's time for the Pope to clarify statement on condomsDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-54600197154153841142010-12-07T08:39:11.984-05:002010-12-07T08:39:11.984-05:00I agree with Shakespeare's Cobbler. I think t...I agree with Shakespeare's Cobbler. I think the Pope has said all he needs to say. Anything else said will simply fall on deaf ears. Those who don't listen don't want to listen in the first place.RobLognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-89069255313739236522010-12-03T17:57:05.842-05:002010-12-03T17:57:05.842-05:00To be perfectly honest, I don't see what he ca...To be perfectly honest, I don't see what he can say in clarification that he didn't already say in the interview. Except, perhaps, to repudiate his speculation on possible subjective nuance or perhaps to frame his speculation in explicit terms of moral theology so that the faithful Catholics would have no excuse anymore to argue over what exactly he meant; but the former wouldn't be particularly honest or realistic of him (as much as it may be imprudent to have waded into the waters of nuance and complicated reality in the first place, it would be silly to positively deny their existence) and the latter would only help the inside baseball and not the outside. What reason do we have to believe that the media will get a clue if he repeats the truth of the matter for the umpteenth time? One could argue that things would be better had he not brought in the nuance, but now that the nuance is here I don't see that one can argue that he must repeat the un-nuanced part once again or even that it will undo the obsession with the nuance, for the simple reason that he already included the un-nuanced part in making the initial statement in the interview.Shakespeare's Cobblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18365079712115497355noreply@blogger.com