FWIW, I think the Diocese aquiesced in this lawsuit and decision, because the absolute LAST thing it wants is to have to take over parishes, then see Sunday services with 10% of former attendance, AND have to pick up the $$$ burden of maintaining them..( one can't really take over, then close, a parish, after all)..so now this gives them a rationale for standing down..this soundsa like someone in the disocese can read a spreadsheet, and has some common sense..
Why not? Open it up the next day with a pagan lesbian voodoo priestess of the New Age? Sort of like in Connecticut.