text: They do not explicitly say that balancing justice and mercy is an error. However, it is implicit in their "question". To certain people, the thought that people should go unpunished is wrong. Otto von  Bismarck is believed to have said, "it is better that ten innocent men suffer than one guilty man escape." 
  
  I know nothing about the men personally, but Burke et al seem to find the thought of the divorced and remarried going to communion to be personally offensive. Personally, I find the attitude of refusing mercy to be offensive.
  
  On another wholly unrelated subject, you praised my son for "respecting the law" on divorce an remarriage. He does not respect that law. He LEFT the Catholic Church because of that law. It would be like saying that Jews who left Germany in the 1930s "respected" the Nuremberg Laws.