Catechesis: Power of Bishops

The present matter does not involve bishops abandoning their exercise of lordship, but only one thing is requested, namely, that they permit the teaching of the gospel in its purity and relax those few observances that cannot be kept without sin. If they do not do this, they will have to see how they will render an account before God, given that they provide a cause for schism by their obstinacy.—AC XXVIII:77,78 (Latin)