Sobran Column -- Structures of Deceit
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Structures of Deceit
June 27, 2000
In his
new book, <cite>Papal Sin,</cite> Garry Wills contends that the
Catholic Church is trapped by “structures of deceit” -
commitments to false doctrines that can be sustained only by a habit of
compounded falsehoods. If a pope errs, he argues, the doctrine of papal
infallibility forces his successors to lie in order to maintain not only his
error but the semblance of infallibility. The Church can't afford to
backtrack.
It's a plausible argument, if
you reject papal infallibility, as Wills does. In fact he rejects most
Catholic doctrine from the earliest centuries of the Church, so that you
wonder why he still calls himself a Catholic.
The argument actually applies with
greater force to the U.S. Supreme Court, which doesn't expressly
claim to be infallible, but acts as if it were. The Court has now upheld its
controversial ruling in the 1966 Miranda case, requiring police to inform
suspects of their rights before question
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