Has anyone else noticed that when the Church speaks of "mercy," it's actually a call for OTHER groups and people to relax THEIR moral and ethical standards, while the Church stays as moralistic as ever?

Where is the Church's "mercy" to the divorced, to protestants and followers of other religions, to gays, to users of contraception....heck, to people who miss Mass on some Sundays?  Not in evidence.  As I understand it, the same mortal sin penalties still apply.

This entire year of Mercy was just a lot of talk.

And I'm beginning to strongly suspect it had an underlying political intent (immigration).