text: I guess I'm concerned that in my criticisms of Cardinal Burke (and of some of those other relentless zealots you note) I have started to SOUND like Cardinal Burke. And that's not good for my self esteem. Or for a healthy Church family.
  
  There is no room for perpetuating internal enemies lists, denial of sacraments,  branding our fellow Catholics CINOs, and other punishments in the mode too many "Trads" have found acceptable or even virtuous.
  
  If we get into a payback mentality in our demands for retributive justice, when the pendulum swings...
  
  Can't we risk (right word, I admit) showing how intelligent, tolerant, forgiving, and experienced Catholics behave and declare the relentless zealotry of the Catholic McCarthyism of Burke and others unacceptable in ourselves as well as in others? In the past. In the present.  In the future.
  
  Catholics shouldn't behave like this. On the Right. Or anywhere else. Thank you for your thoughtful and hard-to-argue-against reply.