Complaints making a difference, Australian bishop retires early

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Report on a letter by Bishop William Morris of Toowoomba at brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/toowoomba-bishop-claims-unfair-sacking-20110502-1e3mi.html :

“Some of those who have been disaffected by my leadership have exercised the option of making complaints about me, some of these complaints being based on my Advent Pastoral Letter of 2006 which has been misread and I believe deliberately misinterpreted,” Bishop Morris said.

“This led to an Apostolic Visitation (by Archbishop Charles Chaput) and an ongoing dialogue between myself and the Congregations for Bishops, Divine Worship and Doctrine of the Faith and eventually Pope Benedict. The substance of these complaints is of no real import now but the consequences are that it has been determined by Pope Benedict that the diocese would be better served by the leadership of a new bishop."
 
Some other articles on lead up to this:

May 2002 “General Absolutions continue in the Toowooba Diocese” at ad2000.com.au/articles/2002/may2002p8_992.html .

Report in 2009 at cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=11739 "… Bishop Morris said there was a group of very conservative Catholics dubbed the “temple police” who travelled around parishes dobbing in priests who didn’t toe the line.

“There are plenty of temple police around at the moment,” he said…"
 
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