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Mike Hind's avatar

Baffled by how unfashionable it is to want the killing, maiming & destruction to stop and genuinely amazed that anyone thinks it can end without a negotiated peace, let alone almost the entire commentariat. It feels like a new low point in public discourse. Thanks for standing apart from that.

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The Pope came under fire in the public discourse this past week for arranging for a Ukrainian and a Russian woman - coworkers at a hospital - to carry the cross for one leg of the Good Friday procession. The idea was that it sent a bad message, that it was “both-sidesing” the conflict somehow.

We’re in a strange, creepy place when it’s considered a moral betrayal for the Pope to publicly state support for international cooperation and reconciliation between the citizens of warring countries. Everybody loves it when he says he doesn’t have the moral authority to judge gay people, when he washes the feet of prisoners, and when he condemns international conflict. Just not *this* international conflict, somehow.

Thanks for this post. It’s a relief to hear someone talking about how strange and uncritical the discourse has gotten.

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