Trudging on trustfully - in the footsteps of doofuses

'The promise of the Holy Spirit is not that he will give you perfect people to teach you, but that he himself is the soul of the Church and that he will not allow it to define error as truth. When (not if) some member of the Church is shown to be flawed, that is not an appalling revelation of the horrible truth that everything you have ever believed is a lie. It’s a confirmation of what we’ve known ever since Jesus himself chose 12 doofuses to be his apostles and suffered betrayal and abandonment at their hands. And the chief of them was, in Chesterton’s phrase “a shuffler, a coward, and a snob—in a word, a man”. That’s good news, because it means that if Peter can be a saint, so can a couple of drips like you and me.' 

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