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... In Garry Wills’ “Papal Sin”, Wills outlines and reveals a papacy that is very quick to deny wrong and deceitful things it has done in the past. ... In the document, written by the papal commission, We Remember, the papacy dances around the fact that church did not approve of the Nazi practices, rather than owning up and saying that it did nothing to help prevent what happened. ...
In Wills’ discussion, papal sin becomes conflated with Church sin, especially in the areas of the relationship of the Church to its institutional hierarchy and to the Jewish community and the Church’s policies during the Holocaust, and its dogmatic position on issues of sexual morality and reproductive policy, most tellingly in the areas of clerical celibacy, abortion, and contraception. ...
“…As the Vatican teaches, every fertilized human ovum contains a human soul, and each soul inherits original sin, and baptism is needed for a soul freed from original sin to enter heaven, then each fetus from the fertilized egg stage should require baptism”(222). ... The father was the one who committed the sin, he should be punished, not the baby. “Whatever the male did, the fetus is innocent of it, and if it is an innocent person, it should not be killed for its father’s sin”(222).
Approximate Word count = 1555
Approximate Pages = 6.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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