OPINION:
In “Pope criticizes immigration walls while living behind one” (Web, April 6), Everett Piper refers to a letter from Pope Francis to all American Catholic bishops. In it, the pope declares that we are at “a decisive moment in history to reaffirm … the infinite and transcendent dignity of every human person.”
This letter is virtue signaling on steroids. We are at a point at which many people — especially many of our youth — have been convinced that they do, in fact, possess “infinite and transcendent dignity.” As a consequence, they accept the notion that they are the determiners of right and wrong and that there are no absolutes.
I believe the pope should have delivered a completely different message — one reminding the bishops to remind the people that we all fall short. That is, he should have said we are all sinners in need of forgiveness and repentance in terms recognized by the Catholic Church.
DANIEL P. MCKIM
Springfield, Virginia
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