The congregation may have the right and the power to withhold its property from the church hierarchy. The church hierarchy likewise has a right/ capability to discipline the congregation. hard to get worked up over this. Each side makes its decisions and lives with them.
You are wrong. The hierarchy has NO right to punish innocent people. Morally it hasn't got a leg to stand on.
"The congregation may have the right and the power to withhold its property from the church hierarchy."
The congregation can withold contributions, of course.
But church property and assets are held in the name of the Bishop.
No they don't. Canonical discipline must be based upon actual infractions of canon law. However, it is not an infraction of the law to refuse to turn over private property to the Bishop. If what you said was true, the Bishop coupld demand that every private chapel, school, etc. be turned over in deed and control to him simply because he wished to have their possession.