We all have to admit we are prone to the same failings we see in others—and prone to deny them as well. This seems to be perennially difficult for us. “One after the other, the apostles say, ‘Surely not I?’ ”(Mark 14:19) when Jesus announces that one of them will betray him. Without undergoing a fearless moral inventory, accompanied by some divine light and love of self and the other, you just cannot see your failings or hypocrisy.
