Given the poor leadership found here for the past 40 years or so, we are facing a crisis. I would rather see parishes closed than have laity led parishes. Also, fewer parishes means the ability to focus on a mustard seed laity led by fewer but more faithful priests. No need to reassign the many priests who are really Anglicans and not Catholics.
I don't know what the answer is.
I do wish one of the more traditional priest groups (like the FSSP) would be invited in but apparently that is not going to be. The last few leaders (and their auxilaries) have said that diocesan priests should lead the indult community.
One answer would be to shave O'Malley's beard and toss him into the Boston harbor, like the rebels did with the tea a while back.
This is a self-supporting parish, O'Malley has no good reason to shut it down. Then again he had no business forcing the "Talk about Touching" program on the children - which was concieved by a leftist prostitution advocacy group (I'm not kidding)- , then threatening their parents with witholding of the sacraments if they didn't comply.
St. Ignatius was referring to holy bishops, not worldly fools overseeing a crumbling diocese.