[rogator]

The protest technique worked against Cardinal Law. It remains to be seen if it will work against this bishop. Although the padres are apparently not following correct procedures, the bishop also has no right under Canon Law to divert donations made for a specific purpose to other purposes. If he did this, he is just another example of a bishop placing himself above church law.

[BlackElk]

It is for such purposes that God or His Vicar on earth created the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops. They (together with John Paul II and the Holy Office) excommunicated Archbishop Lefebvre and his illicitly consecrated co-conspirators. They can deal with the bishop of Belleville. Under Wilton Gregory the Belleville priests probably got the erroneous impression that their opinion is relevant or desired.

As to Boston and Law, don't you think that the main role of the priests there was behaving scandalously as did the late Fr. Geoghan and that they had little to say that was relevant and that they could not discipline their diocesan ordinary if they wanted to???