As you know, I called this the other night when Fr. E’s admissions were first posted. I’m 41 now, and if I live to be 100, I doubt I’ll see a more egregious display of a “holier-than-though” attitude than Hannity’s response to this. I had hoped he would have been classy enought to forego mentioning it, but deep down, I knew he wouldn’t be able to help himself. Hannity merely lived up to my very low expectations for him.
Yes, you were right. I was wishfully thinking of someone’s being focussed on the goal rather than on shoring up his ego.
Hannity doesn’t seem to be hawg-stupid, although I don’t get the impression that he’s *real* bright ... rather like my James, always two steps and an intuitive leap being the psycho-genius brothers ... so he must know that Fr. Euteneuer, whatever his personal sins, is right about Catholic moral theology, and Hannity himself is wrong. I have things I’m defensive about, too, because I know I’m called to be better than I want to be.