Well this pope certainly got folks talking.
I really think he has a more evangelical framework in mind. Something that (and not to discount the bumbles and fumbles on the way at all, but notwithstanding that) Martin Luther got the hint about several centuries back. Sin stays sin and righteousness stays righteousness. However the means of dealing with it is passed back to God; we don’t try to be “sin committees” but rather look to God for the flexibility to assert grace without excusing sin for a moment. The idea of pointing out sin is not to necessarily smack the sinner down, but to smack the SIN down by replacing it with grace. And squeezing the devil out. It is a beautiful paradigm.
Red, nicely said.