While I am heartsick about Holy Trinity closing down and the Indult being moved to nearby St. James, I have to agree with noste paire. To have each community maintain their own (or a group of parishes) parish is scary. I look around at the situation in Boston and see the parishes that are now running their own show and those parishes are not teaching Catholic doctrine, they are a community unto themselves. I know most traditional Catholics are not likely to set up big screen tv's (as they have in a few of the closed but parishioner protesting via sit ins parishes) and have 'communion services' but they are possibly apt to move away from the larger Catholic community due to a slight bunker mentality (which current circumstances tend to aggravate). In effect, both the traditionalists and the progressives end up in the same place - out of sync with the bishop and the larger Catholic community of believers.
The situation at HT is volatile - parishioners are filing a suit against the parish priest accusing him of mismanaging funds. This is falling right into the hands of the local VOTF and causing scandal as it is all over the news.
What a mess. I wouldn't want to be Archbishop O'Malley for anything.
So let's all be grateful to Cardinal Law whose stellar leadership would never lead one to try to imagine another way of doing things but to be utterly obedient.
Speaking of Catholic churches in Boston, I was in the St. Anthony Shrine in downtown Boston the other day, and noticed several posters advertising this and that program for "GLBT Catholics," sponsored by the Franciscans, the Paulists and the Jesuits. I suppose those orders aren't really under the thumb of Archbishop O'Malley, but it seems such a travesty. I'm sure these groups are not promoting chastity among the "GLBT Community". Sigh...