Very much so! As I say, a matter of freedom of conscience. The bishop has essentially ordered his priests to strip the possibility of salvation from people whose consciences he is declaring, a priori, are too dysfunctional to matter.

But what really drives this home is that he has ordered his priests not to bless the sick and dying. That’s a gut punch. It really is. It’s amazing (and instructive) that Pope Francis appointed this guy, who already had a history of denying sacraments to LGBTQ people at the time Francis appointed him.