Maybe the government is involved? “Shut him up [they knew they couldn’t do this], or get him out, or you lose your ‘benefits.’”
I doubt the government would have gone after HLI’s tax exempt status without HLI publicly defending itself. There are documented cases where liberal prelates have gone after orthodox Catholics (Cardinal Mahoney and Mother Angelica, for instance) but I doubt we’ll ever know if there was anything more to this than a simple personnel decision by the Diocese of Palm Beach. Fr. Euteneuer is too much the obedient gentleman/servant to do down that path, I suspect.