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I agree with you. I think that people forget that, in the last days, our Enemy (satan), will be so clever as to deceive even the elect. I also have come to think that those who criticize, usually engage in that criticism far more than they engage in prayer and in their intimate relationship with Christ, Himself.

I see this division, which we have ALL seen in the Church (and in society in general) and it is growing in a very evil way. It is propelled by both pride and hatred. I believe that Mark Mallet is one of several who have spoken to this with great wisdom, completely in line with the Teaching Magisterium of the Church...and with love. He has a series of three writings on this division and factionalism that is not to be missed.

Part 1: http://www.markmallett.com/blog/the-thin-line-between-mercy-heresy-part-i

Part 2: http://www.markmallett.com/blog/the-thin-line-between-mercy-heresy-part-ii

Part 3: http://www.markmallett.com/blog/the-thin-line-between-mercy-and-heresy-part-iii

We ALL need to go to Confession and ask God to bless us with great faith in HIM. Then we need to pray, first to improve our relationship with Him...and then to ask for His blessings upon the leaders and the People of our Church!

...I think that people forget that, in the last days, our Enemy (satan), will be so clever as to deceive even the elect. I also have come to think that those who criticize, usually engage in that criticism far more than they engage in prayer and in their intimate relationship with Christ, Himself. I see this division, which we have ALL seen in the Church (and in society in general) and it is growing in a very evil way.

One of Satan's clever tactics is promoting the lies that "unity" is of higher value than Truth, and that papal whims may be substituted for the Church's perennial teachings.

Division is inevitable when Truth is attacked.

"Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation"

When agitators within the Church launch a frontal assault on the Deposit of Faith, the responsibility for the ensuing division can be laid squarely at the feet of those who dare to attack doctrine in the name of "mercy".

"He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth."

"Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith." - St. Peter Canisius