[Saduyre9de]

I don't know. I am quite uncomfortable with all of this. I do truly believe that this thread has gone well beyond the intentions of the OP and seems to offer refuge for brothers and sisters to express their distrust of bishops. While I don't believe we are called to blindly follow them (that is, in matters of doctrine) I also don't believe we are called to be watchdogs. Worse than unwittingly allowing a bishop to steal or misuse our money and independence and other earthly treasures that we cannot store up in heaven would be to call out a bishop on something that may not be true or considerate of the whole picture (for that, we WILL have to answer one day). In the end, if a bishop gets away with something, he will answer for that. Not us. We may suffer earthly consequences for his misgivings, but I would rather that than to answer to Christ for wrongly judging a bishop's actions. It's not called the dread judgment seat for nothing.

Let us pray for our bishops and pray for humility. We are one Church regardless of non-canonical status, overlapping or bickering bishops, misused money, property issues, new calendar, old calendar, schmemman, anti-schmemman you name it.

God bless brothers and sisters,

Joshua