Your Eminence Cardinal Collins:

We, the parishioners of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, ask for your intervention to help heal our community, which has been wounded by the abrupt removal of our beloved pastor, Fr. Joe Gorman. He has been an inspiration, a reconciliatory instrument, a role model, especially for our youth, and has been moral support for families in need, particularly the mentally ill, elderly, and the poor and the grieving. Through his joyful Christian spirit, he has brought back to the Church many of the members who had left, and even non-Catholics.  We ask your Eminence to appoint a mediator to assist us with the process of returning Fr. Joe as our pastor, and we ask for transparency, due process, and clear communication to help us through these difficult times.