text: I agree with you about double standards. I see plenty of that, from both sides, on these boards.
  
  The wrinkle in this case, though, is that the order apparently claimed, falsely, that the Vatican supported the firing. That invited a corrective response from the pope. It also implied that papal approval was important.
  
  The Knights went all in on this hand. You can't blame the Vatican for calling them on it.