If this guy won't get excommunicated, who will?

My basic take on Robert S. McElvaine stinker piece in the Washington Post On Faith column was "Fine, let him have his way - excommunicate him." I mean, here's a guy who seems to make his career off being a bad Catholic. No one would listen to him if he wasn't Catholic ... and the Church has tools to fix this.

Consider what my father Ed Peters has to say:

In fewer than 500 words, McElvaine manages to insult meanly and repeatedly Pope Benedict XVI and to impugn (sophomorically, I grant, but nevertheless clearly and directly) a half-dozen important Church teachings on sacraments, ecclesiology, and moral doctrine. If McElvaine's column does not constitute a violation of, among other norms, Canon 1369, then folks, I am never going to recognize it when it is violated.

Now, it's one thing for the bishops to have ignored gross insults to themselves (I think they were wrong to have done that last year, but I can see why they might have acted thus). But it is entirely something else for them to ignore the kind of venom that McElvaine has just poured out on the pope. Their pope. Our pope.

He lays out a clear road-map out for how to deal with McElvaine.

The law is there for a reason.