Bishop Lopes: "We're being buffeted about by a blog and media culture that never bothers to read the details."

The headline at The Catholic Herald reads:

Bishop Lopes: I don’t believe bishops who plead ignorance of McCarrick


And, in addition to commenting on the current turmoil surrounding McCarrick, Bishop Lopes clarifies a matter that has also caused Catholics' guts to get tied, unnecessarily, in a knot.

[CH] Bishop Lopes also said there was a sense of “chaos and confusion” over the Pope’s change to the Catechism entry on the death penalty, and that his priests had communicated the refrain, “Not this again. Didn’t we just live through this in Anglicanism? Now we’re going to find it in Catholicism?”

[transcribed from video: 10:10 to 10:43] Because what's happening? We're being buffeted about by a blog and media culture that never bothers to read the details. And so, we have trumpeting headlines that (say) 'The Pope has changed the faith of the Church'. He has done no such thing. No such thing! If you read the modification of the Catechism, carefully, it does not address what we believe about capital punishment. 

[CH] But the bishop said this sense of alarm was mistaken, as the media had misrepresented the Pope’s change. “The Pope does not say, for example, ‘Capital punishment is an intrinsic moral evil.’ Had he said that, we’d have a problem.” The Pope’s remarks were about capital punishment under modern social conditions, Bishop Lopes said, rather than about what Catholics are obliged to believe.

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