So a Catholic church is following Biblical teaching? Why is this news?
It's news becomes sometimes when a priest does this--as in the famous case of Father Marcel Guarnizo, who quietly denied the Eucharist to a practicing Buddhist woman in an open lesbian relationship--he is tossed out of his job and receives numerous credible death threats. In that situation the archbishop did not back him up; in fact, it was the archbishop who stripped him of his priestly faculties in that archdiocese. That archbishop, Donald Wuerl of Washington, is now very close to the pope.
“So a Catholic church is following Biblical teaching? Why is this news?”
Because it doesn’t happen much anymore?