Joan Smith: I’ll take no lectures on ethics from Ratzinger – Home News, UK – The Independent

Joan Smith: I’ll take no lectures on ethics from Ratzinger – Home News, UK – The Independent

As Joan writes, “When will this sclerotic, celibate priesthood acknowledge that sex is wrong when it’s coercive, not when it’s between people who aren’t married or who happen to belong to the same gender? When will it realise that its claim to the moral high ground has been undermined by scandal and by a puritan disdain that’s demonstrably incapable of distinguishing between harmless pleasure and abuse?”