David Zizik, founder of the diocesan Parish Leadership Forum, disputes VOTF's claim to work in and with existing church structures, citing its refusal to support interim Bishop Richard Lennon’s 2003 Lenten Prayer Initiative and opting instead for a so-called “Silent Watch,” in which VOTF "called for its supporters to protest at the archdiocesan chancery between noon and 3 p.m. each day during Lent".“We are at loggerheads because many groups within the church have adopted a kind of adversarial [approach]."