But it is a fascinating read.
Regarding excommunication, I posted more information from the blog below. There is no official announcement, but the point of the blog is to expose information that is being covered up. This report does correlate with the facts of the deposition.
Mary Ann Kreitzer Jan 16, 2012 10:21 AM
Here’s my understanding. The chancery got Fr. Haley on an old charge that Bishop Keating had already looked into about his having a sexual relationship with a woman. He didn’t, although he would admit himself that what started as spiritual direction was beginning to get too intimate and he stopped it. She wasn’t in his parish but turned up there almost every day according to a friend of mine at the parish, so who was pursuing whom?
At any rate, Fr. Haley was accused of absolving a partner in sexual sin which carries an automatic excommunication I believe. The woman involved never testified but hearsay evidence was presented. The reality is that since the chancery couldn’t get him on the substance of the matter (He never disobeyed the bishop, but did respond to a legal subpoena to be deposed by Jim Lambert’s lawyer in the Verrecchia civil lawsuit case.) At that point the chancery dredged up the old case to use it as the gallows’ issue. And obviously it worked. Father Haley had no money to fight and his canon lawyer quit after being told he’d never work again in the Church if he continued to defend him. Bishops are powerful men. I expect if I were a religious I’d have been silenced long ago.