Vote to allow killing of unborn babies: "well its up to the individual to determine if receiving communion yada yada yada and the local bishop needs to decide if yada yada yada as excummunication is such a harsh yada yada yada."
Say women should be priests: "EXCOMMUNICATE!!!!"
This guy is not a politician - he's a priest.
He's been off the rails for years of course, but they got him at last.
Could the American bishops have had more backbone, sooner? Sure. But a surprising number have stepped up now (even the dullest of them have realized what's at stake).
Let's praise them when they do right, not just criticize.