Just when adultery seemed no longer news—after all those tabloid affairs of presidents, princes, and other celebrities—the ancient sin is back in the headlines....
The real news would be if current headlines led to self-examination, to the insight that courts deal with symptoms, not cures. The latter occur within, as the parables of Jesus show. He said that "out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." In no heart need these various facets of infidelity find a home.May 23, 1997
