Brutal treatment of the priests. There was no discernment as to the closure/merger of parishes. There was no dialogue with the priests, absolutely NONE. 

Each priest had a 20 minute appointment with 2 priest delegates. Worse yet, the vicar for priests, has cancer, and many of the priests do not want to put this guy through anything more than what he is going through right now.  He would have been the only advocate for the priests. But again, the man is fighting cancer, how could any priest put another brother priest through anymore than he is already. 

The Wednesday before the plan's release, the priests were lectured about "obedience and respect" by Blair and his henchman, the Dominican Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Hartford, the Very Reverend Stephen Bogaslawski, O.P., who Blair brought with him to Hartford. 

He could not find a diocesan priest to serve as the vicar general, moderator of the curia. Blair has insulated himself from his priests.