TONE, or lack of it

The Cafeteria Is Closed: Feeling the heat ? reports further and unwelcome developments in the campaign being mustered in Orange against kneeling during Mass.

Father Tran's letters reproduced on the Cafeteria disclose the antithesis of Christian love; an unpleasant and unacceptable blend of overbearingness, smugness, sarcasm, and thinly veiled contempt for their recipients. How did he hope to achieve calling to Christ and to prayer with his words of smarm?

The hungry sheep look up (since they are kneeling down) are are not fed.