I'm not sure what your "angle" is...but I'm pretty sure that when a priest is appointed a bishop it doesn't give him license to do as he pleases - especially when his views are at odds with the pope's.
It certainly doesn't give him the freedom to thumb his nose at canon law - for ex: declaring that recipients of first eucharist are "too young" to understand the concept of reconciliation. Children in the Diocese of Rochester regularly receive first eucharist without having made their first reconciliation - in defiance of Canon Law - with the bishop's blessing.
Yoju wrote: "I'm not sure what your 'angle' is...but I'm pretty sure that when a priest is appointed a bishop it doesn't give him license to do as he pleases - especially when his views are at odds with the pope's. "
I have no angle to this story. I live in this diocese. I picketed Hillary and Schumer when they invaded our Catholic Church seeking last minute votes from the Hispanic congregation. I saw Catholic men dragged out of this church while Schumer and Hillary campaigned away inside!!!
For years, I knew about and even witnessed a break-away church whose pastor was allowed to have a woman on the altar participating in the Consecration.
I do not belong to the "Great Church" -- I am a member in good standing in The Roman Catholic Church. And I pray that we do not have to wait another 5-7 years to have an orthodox bishop.