“Let anyone without sin throw the first rock.”
In John 7.8 the New Testament cited the Christian Messiah admonishing any angry mob set on stoning an adulteress.
Few people are without sin.
Certainly not I in deed and thought, however the recently elected Pope Francis I has been accused by reporters from the Guardian of condoning the arrest and torture of two Liberation Theology priest during Argentina’s Dirty War. He warned the two Society of Jesus clergymen to avoid the slums of Buenos Aires or else he couldn’t protect them from the right-wing death squads working for the junta of Jorge Videla. The army disappeared the two radical priests for months. They were finally freed by the military and found naked in a field, which was a much better fate than being thrown out of an airplane into the ocean, which was the junta’s favorite way of cleaning up their mess.
Francis I has yet to comment on the allegations, although he has long stated that he worked behind the scenes to save their lives and others, but the years of silence bring on questions that have to be answered and questions are much easier to field than thrown stones.
And angry mobs have good aim.