It is sad that in our current era of church closings and widespread corruption, many of us have witnessed something we have never heard of before. Too often, mass and church are being used as weapons held over the heads of the laity. If we do not go along with or agree with the closure of our beloved churches or tactics and practices employed by the "new catholicism," we are repeatedly threatened with lack of holy mass and with the closure of our ancestral houses of God. Completely inappropriate and unholy strong-arming tactics abound, most notably in core team "processes" but also elsewhere. We have several specific incidents we could relay involving different people, but we will not do this since the principle stands on its own. The bottom line is that one should never threaten to withhold the things of God from people as a means of securing one's own wishes. This is immoral. The people of God have a right to the things of God, to the sacraments, to holy mass, and to the churches which they have built and maintained as fruit of their labors and sacrifices for the love of God. When this sort of threatening occurs, it causes one to wonder about a sad estrangement from the original call of God to holy orders. Have some lost that Vision? Let us remember to forgive those who have decided to employ such horrendous tactics since they are severely misled. We pray, as always, that we all are continually converted in heart and mind and remember to Whom our allegiance is owed, for in the end, it is before His throne we will be judged.