Sed contra, Joannes: quidquid recipitur.....:)

Also, I think our experience with the clergy sex abuse crisis has created a hermeneutic we now routinely use to interpret what is happening in the church and the world -- namely, that the bishops and priests who so badly managed the crisis must be responsible for the shape the church is in. As you say, we should examine our hermeneutics now and then to see if we're seeing what's really there or what we want to see, but that's hard to do on a blogsite, especially one that prides itself on limiting discussion in the name of "civility."