I agree with you. To clarify my comment, I am just identifying a attitudinal tendency I have encountered where, instead of the measured and corrective response born of charity and implemented through the proper channels as you describe, discourse has tended to leap quickly to the "get him outta here" kind of attitude, often bandying arou…
I agree with you. To clarify my comment, I am just identifying a attitudinal tendency I have encountered where, instead of the measured and corrective response born of charity and implemented through the proper channels as you describe, discourse has tended to leap quickly to the "get him outta here" kind of attitude, often bandying around language of schism and heresy in a way that obfuscates the truth rather than clarifies it--and often carries a tone of glee, a sort of "heh heh now s/he's got it coming". Both in cases where heresy and/or schism are actually present, and in cases where it is not, this kind of discourse seems to impede a just and charitable response. Does that make sense?
I want to be clear that I am not attempting to justify +Strickland's behaviors or deflect concern away from his direction of action. I'm sort of zooming out and looking at the way American Catholic culture talks about difficult situations like this one.
I agree with you. To clarify my comment, I am just identifying a attitudinal tendency I have encountered where, instead of the measured and corrective response born of charity and implemented through the proper channels as you describe, discourse has tended to leap quickly to the "get him outta here" kind of attitude, often bandying around language of schism and heresy in a way that obfuscates the truth rather than clarifies it--and often carries a tone of glee, a sort of "heh heh now s/he's got it coming". Both in cases where heresy and/or schism are actually present, and in cases where it is not, this kind of discourse seems to impede a just and charitable response. Does that make sense?
I want to be clear that I am not attempting to justify +Strickland's behaviors or deflect concern away from his direction of action. I'm sort of zooming out and looking at the way American Catholic culture talks about difficult situations like this one.