He wasn't defrocked that I know of, but they made him quit Congress. I wish they'd defrock him.
At least Drinan is no longer voting in Congress on issues such as homosexuality and abortion...
He has been given what I refer to as a "soft defrocking."
The Church knows that actually stripping a priest of his faculties (i.e. traditional defrocking) will make all the newspapers as a great story about the Big Bad Catholic Church persecuting a poor little dissenter just for "thinking for himself."
So, with a Drinan or a Greeley, they simply do not allow them into parish ministry or any position of authority in the Church.
They are effectively detached from the life of the Church without winning the propaganda victory they are begging for.
This Drinan scum prays every day to whatever demon he worships that the Church will throw a weak, sickly old man out of the Church just for "speaking the truth."
He wants attention.