[Missouri gal]

You should have called the St. Joseph Foundation in San Antonio and asked them to assist you in making a formal complaint to the Vatican. Bishops do NOT have a free hand to slander their flock. As in any court of law, of course, you need documentation, but if somebody was willing to certify a letter stating what they told you the Bishop had said about you, plus other witnesses certifying what you said and when that got you in trouble with him in the first place, that would be pretty convincing in Rome.

[jobim]

I have been a donor to the great St. Joseph Foundation. The
statement about being safe with children was told to me by the
Deacon principal a few years after the fact; he didn't have
the heart to tell me at the time. And the fact that he removed
me from teaching religion is entirely within his purview.
Because I have always stood for orthodoxy, and battled the hierarchy
here, he could easily trump up anything to give as cause.

Two years ago when an excellent Catholic prolife Lt Gov
was running to be gov against the 100% pro-abortion
Abercrombie, a woman asked to say a few words after Mass,
and spoke about a teenage girl's thoughts about being
prolife. No mention of party, or candidate. The priest,
filling in at that parish, was diocesan vicar, 2nd in command
to the bishop. As soon as she started to speak, he became visibly
upset, and then came across the altar to the podium, asked her
to leave, scolded her to the congregation, and said there is separation
of church and state. That would have been this weekend coming
up in 2010. In January, two months later, that very same priest went to work for
Abercrombie, leaving the priesthood in the process.