That's one way to look at it. Another is that Bp. DLorenzo is one of the victims of it.
How long was Sullivan Bishop? For how many years was a barely hidden pro-artificial birth control and pro-abortion ethos in the ascendant in Richmond?
A few years back I was, briefly, pastoral coordinator of a congregation. It took me months to find out that the chair of the Pastoral Council, the Deacon, and the book-keeper were — no paranoia here! — calling each other and discussing how awful I was, how my friendship with conservative Dominicans and my conservative politics AND my being an NRA member and a Reserve Deputy sowed that I was just awful to the core and needed to be resisted at every turn.
And one of my worst crimes was that I was trying to run an entirely open administration!
It was the deacon who had suggested to the Bishop that I be pastoral coordinator! Did I feel set up? YEAH! These people had all smiled and applauded when it was announced that I had been given the job which I CERTAINLY did not want, but took at the request, the pleading, of the deacon. (I much prefer running real sheep to serving a congregation. Sheep don't want to have 3 hour meetings to discuss grievances over the altar flowers.)
I had a choice. I could ask the bishop to take care of the deacon, who was slowly dying of cancer, and I could dissolve the pastoral council, or I could resign. I resigned. I took the job only because I was asked to bail them out.
So part of my tendency to side with DiLorenzo is that I think I know how he feels. I know disorienting it is to discover suddenly that those who greeted you with smiles and pledges of cooperation are being thoroughly manipulative, are withholding information or presenting false information, and are blocking communication AND have started out with the intention to resist both candor and cooperation, while pledging both.
Some are calling for his resignation. I bet he has considered it. He's 66. He doesn't need the aggravation. And while some call for him to resign, maybe it would be good to consider what sort of advice the Pope would get on his successor. And what assurance do you have that his successor would be any better or would be given any more cooperation and honesty than what Bp DiLorenzo has been given?
I agree with every point you have made, but the all to human part of me keeps thinking that the Bishop signed off on it.
I realize that he had been told in error that everything was in place and there was nothing he could you do. Instead of contacting the girl, instead of going down and standing in front of the abortionary, instead of standing up like a man and saying "Hell no, He chose to sign, and then after that he engaged in a cover up.
The only thing stopping me from demanding his resignation is that the bureaucracy will still be in place and his replacement might be worse.
I am still sick about it.