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  Marty e f, 
  You probably don't know or adhere to this but I learned it from a couple of brilliant priests while in college. These priests each had three Ph.ds and either attended or taught at a number of the foremost universities in the world, in France, Germany, Italy and in America. Their teachings in Catholic philosophy held a lecture hall full of students spellbound. Many of us would gasp for breadth, such was their teachings that we almost forgot to breathe. 
  The philosophy tenet was that one cannot use ignoble means to achieve ones goals, no matter the goals. So we asked WHY. The reply was that ignoble means increase the weight of evil in the world. 
  So then we ashed" how are we to achieve those goals. The answer was: you must use your higher order God given brain to employ actions that are not ignoble/evil.   
  It seems that you, the last two popes and the American Catholic prelates either don't know or in their extremism, they don't care. 
  Observe --  their evil.