“Whether the pastor binds justly or unjustly, the pastor's sentence is nevertheless to be feared by the flock, lest he who is subject to him—even if, perhaps, he is bound unjustly—should merit the very sentence of his binding from some other fault. Let the pastor, therefore, fear to absolve indiscreetly, or to bind. But let him who is under the hand of the pastor fear to be bound, even unjustly; nor let him rashly censure the judgment of his pastor, lest—even if he has been bound unjustly—from the very pride of his swollen censure there arise a fault which before was not there.” (Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Evangelia, PL 76:1200B)
@RussianPapist Let’s be honest, you live Germany. Do you think if the tlm was mandated at every church that would fix anything for the crisis going on at the modern sodom and gomorrah