Unrealistic Expectations
Yet another round of Catholic priests who either abused children or ignored allegations of such child abuse. This time there even seems to be evidence of Pope Francis having his hands dirty in “rehabilitating” one such tainted Cardinal. Inevitably we hear a few (naïve) people ask how Francis can survive this. The same question arises in the US as more and more of Donald Trump’s top guys get implicated in one thing after another. Surely Trump will get impeached now, they say (hope?). Such people seem to still be living in a time that Santosh Desai describes below: “We have over the centuries, successfully built institutions that help manufacture collective trust. The judiciary, media, bureaucracy, academia- these were among several institutions that we reposed our faith in to act on our behalf. We believed in these institutions.” But now is a different time, a time where “attributing motives to institutions” is the norm. And with that, out goes their credibility: “One ‘s ...