Excommunication watch: Canada! (well, just a part)

From Reuters:

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian priest, who fell afoul of the Catholic church after he backed the ordination of female clergy, was formally excommunicated on Palm Sunday after he held services in his own breakaway church.

"fell afoul." What an easy thing to do, right?

The service was the second held by Reverend Ed Cachia under his new Christ the Servant Catholic Church and was attended by about 250 people at a town hall in Cold Springs, a village about 130 km (80 miles) northeast of Toronto.

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The rift stems from Cachia's support for nine women ordained on a boat on the St. Lawrence River last July in defiance of the Church, which says women cannot be priests.

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"The reason we left was out of protest over the way the bishop is handling this and how he is attempting to crush Father Ed over such a simplistic thing," parishioner Mark King said by telephone.

"Such a simplistic thing." tsk tsk. Naughty Catholic Church!

Needless to say, excommunication, like every punishment in the Church, is meant to have a medicinal effect. Come home before you get used to the cold!