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By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - “My impression is that [Viganò] is a man who is alone and sad because of what he sees happening all around him, but not bitter,” wrote Valli. “In his words there is never one ugly word directed toward any of the many people he speaks about. The facts speak for themselves. At times he smiles and looks at me, as if to say, ‘What should I do? Is there a way out?’”… “He smiles again and responds, ‘I know! But if I had not done it, I would not have been able to respect myself,’” the journalist relates.

By Matthew Schmitz, Catholic Herald - No one cares for the endless Catholic culture wars, but we should be wary of attempts to shut down frank discussion of how we got here. Bishop Barron’s list of taboo topics suggests that he – like most bishops – is keen to preserve the settlement of 1968… In that year, Pope Paul VI famously reaffirmed Catholic teaching on birth control in Humanae Vitae, but then declined to discipline the many bishops and priests who rejected that teaching. The result was an uneasy truce: the teaching was formally upheld, but obedience to it was not demanded.