Nice.
I concur with the first paragraph of the article from Fr. McTigue, and blew off the frontal assault on the miniscule number of existing disparaged “hippie” priests. Never seen one, myself. I can’t confirm they even do exist in any number.
But yes, Holy Church need no lectures from the pile-on crowd on the attempted perversions of virtue, faith, dogma, doctrine, Tradition, tradition and practice from perverters, either from within or without. After all, it has been stirring the Church from the beginning.
The false conception of mercy which is seeping into the Body of Christ from the top down is a danger to souls.
Fr. McTeigue:
“...The mercy at work at Calvary, and its message of hope revealed at Easter, will be triumphant only if we accept the full horror and glory of its blood-soaked nature. Only the Cross of Christ could prove decisively that mercy is free but not cheap, that the moral order cannot be eradicated, and that Gods love, paradoxically, is both resistible and undeniable. Mercy is rightly received and ratified not by treating it as divine permission to persist in sin and the illusion that sin can ever be without consequence, but only when we treat this underserved second chance as our opportunity to love the goodness of God and hate our own evil that would separate us from Him. Divine mercy, expressed at the terrible cost of the violent death of Gods Only Begotten Son, is worthily received when we choose to repent of the sin we could not get free of on our own. The proof that Gods mercy was not wasted upon us is shown when we live our gratitude for mercy by striving after holiness with zeal and joy...”
http://www.aleteia.org/en/religion/news/lent-a-time-of-blood-soaked-mercy-5780783721611264?page=2