"A group of Catholics in the early 1990s filed a canonical lawsuit in the Signatura, the Vatican Court, to force Cardinal Maida to abide by Eccleiasia Dei, in which Pope John Paul II pleaded with the world's bishops to allow a "generous application" of the indult for the Tridentine Mass. The St. Joseph Foundation assisted in that effort. Maida opposed the lawsuit vigorously, and the legal effort ended when the Vatican ruled that with the death in 1994 of Thomas Marshall, the main signer of the complaint, the rest of signers of the petition to Rome had no standing to pursue the case. What kind of way is that to treat people? Just because some old guy dies, the Church throws out the whole petition. That is like spitting in the face of serious Catholics. Is it any wonder the Church is bleeding parishioners, and maybe rightly so?
Has the Church deserted everybody?