text: Take a look at those words "public scandal." Which public and what behavior creates a scandal?  
  
  In a recent homily, Pope Francis deplored the "obtuse mentality that believes in the self-sufficiency of salvation with the fulfillment of the law."  He talked about the “stupidity of the ideological pastor.”    He asked people to pray for priests who use this "obtuse mentality" and "close the doorway" to salvation citing the example of a priest refusing to baptize the child of an unwed mother or a case of a priest who would not allow a father to be present at his child's baptism because the father was divorced.  Is "public scandal" what these priests feared?
  
  Morlino, we are more educated and have instant access to much news and information - we don't all agree on everything, even Catholic doctrine and teachings, which are developing right in front of your eyes.  Some Catholics will be scandalized by your acting, some by your failing to act.  Ideology is not the answer.