For one thing, it's patent that Voris is in the right, and the sacrilege-enabling bishops wrong on this thing. They just want this issue to go away. Nobody in the clergy would try to get aggressive with Voris (I mean, what? Is there a canonical charge for --- um --- "detraction" of a bishop?) because it would make it So painfully clear that the bishops are in the wrong.
Look, I wish to God there were a crisis where this could be argued in a forensic forum (like a canonical trial) because Voris would damn well make his case.
Voris' bishop already told him -- pusillanimous tactic --- that he couldn't call his show "Real Catholic," so he changed the name to Church Militant. That's it. That's all. Full stop. They're not going to say another mumblin' word to him.
Let’s think theoretically, not practically.
A laymen has accused a Bishop of sacrilege. What’s the worst they can do to him? Excommunicate him I suppose.
But think about this. A layman is laying the most serious charge possible on a Bishop of the Church. You seem to agree with him.
What are you going to do about it?
I’m not trying to trap you, I’m trying to understand.
You free as a Roman Catholic laymen (I’m assuming you are) to accept or reject the teaching of your Bishop?