Since the inception of Pope Francis’ pontificate, there has been a well-intentioned attempt to restore the attractiveness of the Gospel for those to whom it has lost its sheen. However, this has played out as the soft-peddling of the gravity of moral doctrine on human sexuality in a post-Vatican II spirit of Jesuitical casuistry, in the sheep’s clothing of personal compassion. This has come to a head in the interim report of the recent synod, causing much confusion. Mercy is rightly to be shown to the person, a subject, as shown by Jesus’ words to the woman caught in adultery “neither do I condemn you”, but it does not come at the expense of justice to the seriousness of the objective act – “go and sin no more”. A denial of the justice on wh