Fr. Martin or The Magisterium?

Milo Winter (1919)

A certain Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten. The next day, dressed in the skin, the Wolf strolled into the pasture with the Sheep. Soon a little Lamb was following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter.

That evening the Wolf entered the fold with the flock. But it happened that the Shepherd took a fancy for mutton broth that very evening, and, picking up a knife, went to the fold. There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf.

The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.

The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Aesop

Is Fr. James Martin, who markets himself as a faithful herald of the Gospel, exposed by his own Tweets as more a predatory canid camouflaged in ovine attire than a conservationist of orthodoxy?

Compare the water from Fr. Martin's trough with that offered by Dr. Eduardo J. Echeverria (link), Anthony Esolen (link) and Fr. Dwight Longenecker (link), and Archbishop Charles Chaput (link) who commented:

(Fr. Martin's) suggestion that the wisdom of the Church, rooted in the Word of God and centuries of human experience, is somehow cruel or misguided does grave harm to her mission. Families have been destroyed because of this misperception, and Father Martin regrettably contributes ambiguity to issues that demand a liberating biblical clarity(.)

Thanks be to God for the watchfulness of shepherds such as Archbishop Chaput.

Fr. Martin's attempts to bridge magisterial Catholicism and contemporary cultural fashion leave students of truth with the impression that Fr. Martin's bridge is a rickety one at best and, therefore, not worth the risk of putting one's soul in danger by crossing it.