This post is the latest in a recurring Beacon feature, Counterpoint, a dialogue between liberal Rick Dollinger and conservative Geoff Rosenberger.
GEOFF: Fr. Bill O’Malley SJ, who taught both of us at McQuaid Jesuit High School back in the 1960s and 1970s, used to say: “The less you know, the more certain you may be.” As teenagers, we didn’t really understand what that meant. But now, a half a century’s life experiences later, we’ve come to appreciate the wisdom in those words. Or, as Bob Dylan wrote (and the Byrds sang) in “My Back Pages”: “Good and bad I define
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