For the other, I'm afraid really bearing down on them would become a fiasco -- the Globe, e.g., and John Kerry (who is an ass, of course, but one with influence) would definitely side with the PC, as would VOTF and others. There are already movements afoot (again and seemingly stronger than in the past) to get rid of the Church's tax exemption and I believe Catholic hospitals lost their fight for exemption from providing the abortion pill in rape cases. Non-Catholics and fallen-away Catholics would immediate think of the abuse scandal and tend to side with the PC. I think it would be disastrous in many ways.
I could be wrong of course. In any case, it's academic, since it's not the sort of thing the archdiocese in interested in quashing -- that's reserved for the TLM!
The PC should have been sat on 40 years ago -- maybe even 30 years ago, it would have been doable.
Well, I agree that it would be a fiasco in the media, but somehow, I think that if we had a St. Athanasius clone for an archbishop, he wouldn’t worry about it! He’d look at it as a supreme “teaching moment,” absorbing the losses (hopefully temporary) of those who would side with the liturgical clowns, and bringing back *thousands* of folks who have drifted away over all of the nonsense over the years. Unfortunately, the current AB is more concerned about offending people not even under his charge than he seems to be about potentially miffing heterodox Catholics, so don’t hold your breath for “Athanasius Rides Again” appearing at a theater near you!