[Lilllabettt]

Bad news. Disobedience is not a good idea. If the Catholics in Boston, who by the way do not, by and large, follow the rules 'the best they can,' are upset by parish closings, then they can file a complaint. Protest does not require sit-ins, or an underground network of priests, or anything like that.

There is a way for the honest, sincere, good-willing people in this movement to protest in a dignified way. Instead, they are making a big, noisy scene and allowing themselves to be tools of the secular media and liberal dissent. (Voice of the Faithful is running the show, by the way.)

They have real concerns, which need to be addressed. But this kid of behavior discredits them in Rome, among liberal and conservative members of the Curia. It will be cast as another problem caused by American democratic traditions, etc.

[ultima ratio]

Disobedience is not a good idea, true. But false obedience is the scourge of the faith and it is the primary enabler of the kind of corruption and abuse of office now pandemic in the Church. Resistance is not only called for during this time of crisis, but it is REQUIRED of the rank and file. No true Catholic can stand idly by while the faith is being deliberately wrecked--surely not in the name of a bogus obedience!

[Salvation]

**Disobedience is not a good idea.**

I agree completely. There are other ways to fight this.