Let's give 'em the benefit of the doubt.
Nope, let's not!
Dictionary says: give someone the benefit of the doubt Meaning in the Cambridge ...
"-to decide that you will believe someone, even though you are not sure that what the person is saying is true..."
Over the years in dealing with our three archbishops, comments, e.g., "Let's give him the benefit of the doubt" have appeared frequently. I humbly submit that this is usually a mistake. Thirty years of giving apuron the benefit of the doubt only allowed that which should have never happened to become common place. Remember how willing we were to give AA Hon the benefit of the doubt until he showed us what a huge blunder that was? And Cardinal Filoni?