When mercy is viewed as a license to sin

La Salette Journey ^ | March 18, 2015 | Paul Melanson

[cleghornboy]

In a post which may be found here, Father Robert McTeigue, SJ writes: "Very often, I hear folks speak of mercy as if it were a cancellation of justice. On this view, “justice” means, “you have to pay off your debt—or else.” “Mercy”, then, says, “About that debt—never mind!” And who wouldn’t breathe a sigh of relief when told that one’s debt has been dismissed, made irrelevant? That’s an appealing, even tempting image of justice and mercy, especially if you’ve ever been deeply in debt. Unfortunately, such a view tragically distorts justice and mercy. If left uncorrected, such a view runs the risk of making us unable to see or feel what is, to borrow a phrase from C.S. Lewis, “the weight of glory.” In other words, the roots of human dignity and the very character of God may be obscured by such a facile, beguiling, and impoverished view of mercy and justice."

While there are so many good and faithful priests who do preach on the reality of sin and the need for reconciliation, there are also many who have no love for the souls under their care. As a consequence, these priests neglect the souls entrusted to them and make no attempt to stress the reality of sin and the need for ongoing conversion.

For such priests and their deluded followers, Jesus was little more than a moronic hippy who traveled the countryside preaching non-judgmentalism (who am I to judge*) and a "peace and joy" which includes putting out the welcome mat for any sort of evil or perversion.

[Iscool]

This is foolish statement. The Books in the Bible did not fall from the skies.

Well yes they did...Or at least the author did...Those books through the inspiration of God came to Daniel, Ezekiel, Moses, Zachariah, John, Paul, Peter, etc., and millions of people became saved in the arms of Jesus thru hearing and believing those books of the bible centuries before your religion even knew what the bible was...Your religion created its own version of God's book, and then got it horribly wrong...

Catholics have a single Truth as reflected in the Credo and the Catholic Catechism.

It may have but it's not the Truth of God...