John Allen interviewed Cardinal Theodore McCarrick last week and it is the most jumbled, evasive bit of spinning I’ve seen in a while. Right off the bat, he throws smoke over Cardinal Arinze’s comments on pro-abortion politicians receiving Communion. He says that the cardinal wasn’t giving his official or personal opinion, but was just repeating the Church’s official teaching. Maybe to some American bishops there is a difference, but I think for Cardinal Arinze his official and personal opinions and the Church’s teaching are all one and the same thing.
