There is no valid analogy between the current situation and the Feeney situation.

In the 1980's, many pro-life people blocked the doors of abortion clinics. They made themselves into obstacles to the commission of crimes. In Catholic moral theology and in civil law, to remove an obstacle that is preventing a crime is to make oneself an accomplice to the crime.

In most such situations, the police were ordered to remove the obstacles that were preventing crime. Deaths resulted.

With only one exception (René Gracida), the Catholic bishops refused to answer the question, Are the police being ordered to commit mortal sin?

The silence of most bishops was absolute. A few condemned the Rescue Movement on the grounds that the bishops had not called for it in their Plan for Pro-life Activities.

The bishops shirked their obligation to answer the question.

The Pope is now in the same position.