Instead of a mass boycott, why not a sit-in until the bishop agrees to call?

JENNIFER Sleeman is to be thanked. She has lifted the discourse for us from a debate about the liturgy of lamentation to a debate about action.

But how effective would an abstention be that would be immeasurable? Many of us just stay away anyway. Who counts or cares?

Having read a great deal about protests, sit-ins, occupations, marches, boycotts and the like over the past four decades or so, I wonder if there is more impact in actions that involve an element of physical presence and unavoidable encounter – controlled and peaceful?