Ummmnnnhhh....
You may have missed the point. Burke is trying to tell these people that their stiff-necked resistance to the rule of Canon Law will (WILL!!!) endanger their salvation.
You may characterize this as a 'temporalities' issue, and it is--but that's not the important part of the story.
Over a piece of property? I doubt a dispute over a piece of property is jeopardizing anybody's immortal soul. Besides, they can receive the sacraments at another parish where they are not known.
But so will his heavy handedness. This type of thing is the sort of thing that really went away after Vatican II and I for one am glad we don't see it anymore. Don't we all know plenty of people who left the Church in the 50's and 60's because of some tyrannical act or comment by a priest?
Let me say I like Burke. I admire the way he's dealt with the baby killing politicians. However, I think he's acting like a petulant child in this instance. Where has he been when it comes time to read the homosexual clergy or his brother bishops the riot act? Why isn't he concerning himself with the huge plank in his own Church's eye before trying to remove the speck from a small parish?
This sort of heavy handed micro management will preclude him from consideration of a Cardinal's hat.