More than 1,000 people have signed a petition over
the forced retirement of Catholic Bishop William Morris from the
Toowoomba diocese on Queensland's Darling Downs, reports the ABC.
Father Ray Crowley says those behind the petition do not want Bishop Morris's treatment to be repeated elsewhere.
"We don't want the voice of a small minority, a lot of whom have come
together and move around churches - they're not part of those
communities.
"They take notes, whatever, and they pass those on to Rome, without
going through the process of talking to the minister or the community
involved."