Interesting from Fr. Miceli:
"The conference sat in judgment, in the chair of Peter not of Moses, on the Church. It preached downward to the hierarchy, scolding them, demanding a reform of their lives, and listing privileges they must give up at once
Isn't that what you do in this thread on a regular basis? Are you wrong, or was the conference wrong, or are you both right?
Reading through that entire link, and understanding that he was writing a first-person account, I don't know how reliable a narrative it is. Would another observer have a much different take? He quoted without attribution, and provided his own version of their intent, and I don't know if he was accurate. It seems to me the thread running through the narrative was that he feared for the safety of clericalism.