Thank you for your clarification...and your response.

However.  When you make public statements that you are going to defy the Vatican, give interviews, and even NCR says "...his celebration of a public Mass last Sunday in contravention of a ban on public ministry imposed on him ...."
(https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/redemptorist-fr-tony-flannery-celebrates-mass-after-five-year-ban)

It's pretty much public.

And yes. Discretion is the better part of valour...