Some Priests Give some Catholic Tough Love in Wisconsin

And the usual suspects are horrified.

Father Z has a very good article today at “staunch Catholicism and tough-love approach” in Sauk City

"The people are not considered the church, only the priests are," said Sister Mary Francis Heimann of Madison, a Catholic nun who has been critical of Morlino and has been attending Masses by society priests to check them out. She says the Masses lack joy and are "regressive and depressing."

Regressive and depressing. Yeah right.

Dennis Doyle, a Catholic theologian at the University of Dayton in Ohio, describes the society as having "a dynamic spirit." But this spirit comes with risks, he said. Morlino and the society’s priests are willing to fight against cultural trends in the name of purity of doctrine, an approach that is "difficult, at times painful, and pastorally questionable," said Doyle, adding that he hopes the priests "continue to grow and change along with their parishioners."

So if you teach the Church's Teachings as they should be this is "pastorally questionable? I think Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul the II do this and they are very Pastoral. When did Pastoral become "One must water down the faith".

Here is one of the Parish's web site where the Priest are it in Salk City.

How much you want to bet in 5 years these Parishes will have had significant growth and planted the seeds for many vocations,