The spokesman for the Parish Preservation Alliance, an organization that seeks to preserve Detroit parishes amid the prospect of mass closures, said that he received a canonical directive from Archbishop Edward Weisenburger.
Kevin Kijewski, J.D.—a former archdiocesan superintendent of schools—wrote:
On the morning of Monday, October 26, the day before the meeting, a canonical directive from the Archbishop arrived at my door by FedEx. Dated October 22, it named the meeting by date and place. It forbids me to offer “canonical advice or guidance” to any Catholic in the Archdiocese, to raise money for any canonical cause, or to work with any canon lawyer the Archbishop has not approved. That evening, his vicar wrote that by attending, I “will knowingly be in violation” of it.