montaine: That is true from a theological perspective, but if a lay groups not affiliated with any Catholic Diocese show up in LA and the LA Bishops have said these Lay groups are not lay associations under the pastoral care of the Catholic Bishops in LA, any civil unrest will be spun in the press to attack the Church.
Prayer, the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is what the US Catholic Bishops collectively asked all Catholics to pray on 16 June. So saw the article and I prayed it already, and I will join my prayers with all the Church on 16 June and pray it in communion with the entire Church.
Those who want to out and engage in civil protest, while that is their legal right, I think that is not the way to go.
Out of curiousity, do Catholics sing ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’?