[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!

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "Disobedience is not a good idea, true. But false obedience is the scourge of the faith"

True. This reminds me of the story of the rape of Dina. Her brothers pretended piety to her rapist and his father that she could marry the beast if all the men of their city were circumcised. On the third day when the pain from the circumcism was greatest her brothers Simeon and Levi came in the dark and slay all the men of the city. Jacob was not pleased.

Some people want to trim our faith. Ouch!