Bear Witness Unto the Truth

Alongside pride (pístis) and hatred (elpís), perhaps the most obtrusive Christian virtue is the ability to see past the beam in one's own eye in order to point out the mote in someone else's (agápē). The Pope, who recently canonised a teenager for posthumously curing people, and whose Saviour promised eternal life in return for assuming a light yoke of absolute obedience and continual self-abasement, has been wagging the finger at online gospel that provides incomplete or inaccurate information in order to entice a larger number of dupes. The heir to the book-burners and the paedophile cover-ups also delivered a paean to freedom of information, although the date when the Vatican archives will be thrown open for general inspection remains as yet unspecified.