You'd want to be EXTREMELY sure about that, and even if you're sure of your facts, there might also be some problem with your interpretation, after all, we don't have the responsibility to issue the judgment, and we don't know even if perhaps the Bishop was at some fault, if he has already been forgiven by our Blessed Lord, so that He doesn't remember a putative sin, and perhaps the Bishop has even achieved perfect contrition and detachment from effects of the temporal punishment for sin.
That said, it would seem to be in accord with the much vaunted Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Liberty that ordinary people be allowed to worship in the authorized format that most suits them.
Again, we should be in prayer for this and all other Bishops, for if we had to bear up under their responsibility for 5 minutes, we'd crumble like Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, AKA, Semolina Gulch.
Two questions (maybe only one, if you answer “No” to the first):
1) Do you think Terry Schiavo was murdered?
2) Do you think Michael Schiavo, Judge George Greer and Bishop Lynch all bare complicity in her murder?
The sexual misconduct charge against Lynch involved former diocesan employee Bill Urbanski, 42, who reported to Church officials that Lynch had sexually harassed him on numerous occasions.
Church officials said they offered Urbanski another job within the diocese but away from Bishop Lynch in September 2002, but Urbanski turned down the offer. Instead, he was given a $100,000 severance package after he agreed not to file a lawsuit. Actually, the figure is closer to $150,000 if the extended salary payment that qualified Urbanski for vested pension benefits is included.
The entire operation was carried out in almost total secrecy. Lynch’s three loyal subordinates — diocesan attorney, Joseph DiVito, Vicar General Msgr. Brendan Muldoon, and Chancellor Msgr. Robert Gibbons — “reviewed” the complaint against their boss. Only Archbishop John Favalora in Miami was notified of the complaint. Nothing was put in writing. Nevertheless, church officials denied that the payment was “hush money.” “The diocese does not buy silence in St. Petersburg,” said attorney DiVito. He explained that the money came from parishioners, bequeaths, investments and unrestricted accounts. “No funds earmarked for the ministry were used,” DiVito said.
When contacted by the press for a statement, Urbanski said the public revelation had caught him by surprise and he was not prepared to discuss it at this time.
Later, Bishop Lynch admitted that he may have crossed the line between friendship and work. He made a vague reference to getting some “counseling.
“http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/070330