text: This saga reminds me of the story in the John Gospel chapter 8 about the Pharisees trying to snare Jesus in an legalistic trap when they drag to him a woman caught in the act of adultery. Jesus is clearly annoyed by their excessive legalism so he pretends to write in the dirt in order to show them how bored he is. Then he says, ‘Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone.’ Pope Francis should shrug off this nonsense by telling his latter-day Pharisaic accusers the same thing, for they deserve no less. It is all much ado about nothing.