[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The Rev. Kenneth Lasch, a veteran Catholic priest, said he was repelled.

"I saw it as religious barbarism ... in my opinion, God did not send his son to die,'' said Lasch, of St. Joseph's Church of Mendham. "God sent his son to live, to be faithful. And in being faithful, it cost him his life.''

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[ultima ratio]

This is where we are nowadays--we have Catholic priests ignorant of the most central of Catholic doctrines and ignorant even of the meaning of the Mass as a sacrifice. Here is the Catholic Encyclopedia on this:
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By voluntary submission to His Passion and Death on the Cross, Jesus Christ atoned for our disobedience and sin. He thus made reparation to the offended majesty of God for the outrages which the Creator so constantly suffers at the hands of His creatures. We are restored to grace through the merits of Christ's Death, and that grace enables us to add our prayers, labours, and trials to those of Our Lord "and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ" (Col., i, 24).

[NathanR]

I saw it as religious barbarism ...

I think the reason he saw it as barbarism, is that it follows the gospels more than he would like.