text: Sister Rose, Pope Francis keeps trying to explain that to bishops and priests but many don't seem to be getting the message.  On October 17, Pope Francis homily included this about the "obtuse mentality that believes in the self-sufficiency of salvation with the fulfillment of the law."   He talked about how wrong it is when a priest tries to avoid "scandal" by, for example, refusing to baptize the child of an unwed mother or refusing to allow a father to attend his child's baptism because the father is divorced.  
  
  Morlino was right to fear publicity about this directive to priests.  It is a scandalous attempt at avoiding scandal.  Go figure.