RE: Pope: Sometimes Husband-and-Wife Splits Become 'Morally Necessary'
June 25, 2015 at 5:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 5:37 pm by Pyrrho.)
(June 25, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Tonus Wrote: I'm glad the Pope has given battered wives permission to flee their abusive husbands.
Yes. It is an improvement over Catholic attitudes of the past. He is also giving more than permission to do such things. He is saying that it can be the right thing to do, not just something that one is allowed to do.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.