Finally, an excommunication for someone way over the limit...

My friend, the inestimable and inobscure Fraser Pearce, often asks me why the Holy See doesn't issue far more excommunications than it does to those who bring its reputation into disrepute by teaching and actions incompatible with the faith. I always point out that the Church demonstrates great patience in its dealings with the erring and the wayward (Thanks be to God!), but of course there are limits. It seems that those limits have finally been reached in regard to Archbishop Milingo.