Who am I to judge?

Conservative Catholics demand that the Pope withdraw his stand on gay marriages. Conservatives of whatever stripe demand that the world should stay still, that the clocks should stop. They have an unshakeable faith in their rightness. Whatever they strand for is right, whatever is different from that is wrong. They have a clear understanding of sin, and sin belongs to others. Pope Francis is a greater man with a broader vision than any of his critics. He said that it is not for him to judge. If it is not for the Pope to judge, whose infallibility is the corner stone of Catholic belief, it is certainly not for anyone else to judge, who is steeped in his or her own bigotry. The world is full of judges, those who call anyone a sinner, a heretic, a traitor, who depart from their own hidebound set of beliefs. It takes the humility of a great man, a Pope Francis, to put such judges in their place.