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December 14, 2020
Michael Biehl
San Francisco
From the tenor of the letters in the last two issues of CSF, I get the impression that most readers have ambivalent or downright negative feelings about the archdiocese’s push for felony vandalism charges against those who wrecked St. Junipero Serra’s statue. Not me. I was happy that the archdiocese was willing to fight for “home and family,” and rather wish the Marin prosecutor had also filed hate crime charges. I’m not a heartless guy.
Frankly, I wonder if many readers haven’t been somewhat “infected” by the I-deeply-apologize-for-my-Catholicism “virus” making the rounds in church circles. Forgiveness? St. John Paul II publicly forgave his would-be assassin – after about a year had elapsed. But he never ever campaigned for Mehmet Ali Agca’s early release from prison. To forgive is not the same as to forget. Brushing a matter under the rug is only to aid in the construction of a lie.
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