[cmj328]

Canonical penalties are typically reserved for:

• Apostasy, heresy, and schism
• Violating a vow
• A priest who violates the Seal of Confession
• Killing the innocent
• Attacking bishops or the Pope
• Desecration of the Holy Eucharist
• Profanation of sacred vessels, church buildings, etc.
• Stealing from the Church
• Sex crimes (mostly revoked 1983)

[Marchmain]

This has the tone of the Salem witch trials, with the bishops acting as puritan judges against people guilty of no crime. They are not looking at a real situation, but some theoretical travesty, pounding their fists for punishment of whoever has a different opinion. This is not the purview of bishops, or anyone! Is everyone turning totalitarian?