Orson Scott Card and the Roman Catholic Church

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how are they different in their intellectual reconciliation of moments causing cognitive dissonance?

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/1...ce=queue_title

LDS explain away bad conduct or bad decisions by leaders in much the same way Catholics do.

They argue Pope is not really infallible as non-Catholics really claim, but rather only when he speaks ex cathedra, from the chair of Peter. Otherwise he is just a man. And apparently excommunication means in the modern RCC something different than what it means in the LDS Church. However, even murder is apparently forgivable.

But if one examines the essence of the arguments, we use the same logic as the RCC defenders of the faith, just apply them to different facts. Or we twist and turn and say BY's priesthood policy really wasn't racist.