Those who work against the Church by merging and closing parishes have bound themselves not to the law of god, but to the will of man.

St. Thomas More on following God above all things and resisting unjust and ungodly laws:

I never intend, God being my good Lord, to pin my soul to another man's back, not even the best man that I know this day living: for I know not where he may hap to carry it. There is no man living, of whom while he lives, I may make myself sure. Some may do for favor, and some may do for fear, and so might they carry my soul a wrong way. And some might hap to frame himself a conscience and think that, while he did it for fear, God would forgive it....

But Margaret, first, as for the law of the land, though everyone born in and inhabiting it is bound to keep it in every case under pain of some temporal punishment, and in many cases also under pain of God's displeasure, still no one is bound to swear that every law is well made, or bound under pain of God's displeasure to perform any point of the law that is actually unlawful....

I know well that if they were to make a law to do me any harm, that law could never be lawful, ...and then, as I told you, this is like a riddle, a case in which a man may lose his head and have no harm.... (From Correspondence of Sir Thomas More, pp. 521ff, emphasis added)