It might sound less precipitous if they even mentioned what behavior they condemned. The way it’s put, it sounds like the verdict first, then the trial.
It might be the Smirk (tm) — but there was a boat load of apparently false accusations on the other side too. To draw a false accusation should hardly call for a Christian reprimand.
They had transgressed the Unwritten Law.
Looks like the diocese and the school violated the Commandment that says, “Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor” by bearing false witness against their own kids. Oh well, not too much, since so many RC clerics have recently been busy buggering the choir boys and Bergoglio doesn’t seem too bothered by it.
“It might be the Smirk”
There was no “smirk” by the student. That is a lie created by the media using the false impression in the photograph.
The video shows the student just standing there smiling in a friendly way while the so called “elderly Vietnam Vet” went up to him and continued drumming an inch away from his face and others insulted him.
The supposed “smirk” was a lie be the media.
If he had not smiled in the face of harassment, then he would have been accused of showing a grimace of hatred.
The fix was in.