It’s a choice many of us have to make in our lives, whether the goals we seek are small or large, personal or political. We often have to determine whether a specific goal we care about—especially a righteous one, such as justice for abuse victims, ending sexual harassment in the workplace, or achieving a particular political reform—is more important than what we do to reach it. So what, we say, if we have to make a few unsavory alliances to get there? So what if a few innocent people are thrown under the bus? Certainly Pope Pius XI learned the answer: Sooner or later, we are likely to be
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