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When worship loses its center, everything else begins to drift. Doctrine becomes harder to articulate. Moral teaching becomes uncomfortable. The call to repentance softens. And mercy is quietly separated from truth.
We hear much about mercy today – and rightly so. Without mercy, none of us would stand. But mercy has been redefined. Too often it is presented as affirmation without conversion, accompaniment without direction, and compassion without truth.
This is not the mercy of Christ.
The Church is not abandoned. Christ remains her Head. He is present in the Eucharist. He is faithful to His promises. And yet, many of the faithful feel unsettled. They feel disoriented. They struggle to put words to it, but they sense that something precious has been weakened, something essential has been obscured.
It is one thing to be compassinate for those seduced to come to the USA saying they would be winked at for being illegal, but when the criminals are being deported and the left is making it a crusade to stop them violently (like running them down with a car or invading a church), then you have to recognize there is a lot of deception. And when the bigshot US bishops defending the leftist crusade are the ones we layfolk know as beingg the same ones who wink at priests who are immoral, well, you know a lot of us will be cynical. And I won'd even get into the middle management level of the church bueaurocracy that got pedophiles off, and are using the fund
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