[Mrs. Don-o]

It's plain from context that he means "a greater evil that individual sin."

I do wish I were his communications czar. He makes a dozen bumbles a day that a good editor could squelch. I would remind him daily of the First Rule of Good Communication: Never pass by a brilliant opportunity to keep your mouth shut."

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." --- Flannery O'Connor

[Jeff Chandler]

It’s like saying sloth is worse than laziness.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

If but it were just sloppy rhetoric Mrs. Don-o.

It sounds to me like populist theology. There is a definite liberation theological world view with this pontiff. The idea that "true" evil only resides in oppressive power structures. It's not heretical so much as naive IMHO.

That said, I have no real worries for the Church. It may suffer at times but it will always persist.

[miss marmelstein]

LOL! And I’m laughing at the classy comment about halitosis!