"Everybody lies” is the maxim of the fictional Dr Gregory House, deliciously played by Hugh Laurie in the television series House. The first few weeks of 2019 have not quite proven the maxim to be true, but they have left strong evidence that certain men in positions of high Church leadership have a hard time telling it straight.
That’s the sort of thing that creates what Pope Francis calls a “credibility gap” – if not a “truth deficit”. This is a problem for men whose first responsibility is to proclaim that Jesus is the Christ, God in the flesh, who died for our sins and rose from the dead.
