[Salvation]

**a "balkanization" of the Church in the US -- is causing very serious and very widespread confusion. It is a source of grief for Catholics in dioceses where draconian measures are taken to eliminate kneeling or other traditional gestures of reverence. People are especially distressed (and perplexed) at the harshness of the directives of some bishops, and find themselves torn between their wish to obey the bishop (some bishops are invoking obedience to enforce their directives) and their profound desire to express bodily their reverence for the Blessed Sacrament.**

I believe these peoples hearts will lead them to stick with the Lord and the reverence for the Holy Eucharist, and to bring the abhorations of non-reverence to their Bishop's attention. When that won't work, for in some cases it won't, then I believe these individuals will go another step up -- whether it is a regional representative Bishop or the USCCB or even to the Pope.

The people of Boston are an example of this in the letters they sent to Rome about Law.

[ultima ratio]

People complained about corruption for decades, writing to Rome all that time, receiving silence for answers. It was the MEDIA that brought Law down, and the rebellion of the clergy. The laity was ignored by Rome as usual.