It didn’t shake mind and it did seem to shake his wife faith either!
It will shake those who did not nuture their faith by reading scriptures often.
Even in a MS church many will become lacks and be more worldly than if they have feasted often on the Word!
Your Church should be secure enough in its own belief and faith, that the investigating of history, or the opinion of others shouldn’t interfere.
Excommunication is a way of branding someone as ‘sinful,’ untrustworthy, or dishonest. It is cultic. If that is what Catholics do, then so be it. I would not agree with them either.
BTW, my Church cannot excommunicate someone, and it never does. When an organization is fearful of investigation, then I think that organization has a problem. Of course, you disagree with me...I am an apostate.