[sinkspur]

The relationship with one's spouse is not necessarily the one you would apply to your children, not that priests are children, but there is a marked difference between the pope and the bishops and that of bishops and priests

Your instincts are correct. Donoghue is treating his priests like children.

Maybe you could answer why Donoghue decided, all of a sudden, to change a practice he has countenanced for ten years!

[St.Chuck]

I don't know why, but I know that parents can be absorbed with something....say TV, and not notice the child running around with a sharpened pencil in his mouth. When the parent does notice he orders the child to put the pencil down and cease running. The child is incredulous, and can't believe this arbitrary behavior after he had been making laps around the house for ten blissful minutes. While the parent may be wrong for being distracted, he is not wrong for ending the dangerous behavior. Maybe that's the proper analogy for the bishop.