“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.”
St. John Chrysostom

“We don’t want to excommunicate people who will wear excommunication as a public badge of honor” is an admission that leaders of the church see themselves as PR managers not the shepherds of souls. Withholding excommunication when it should be applied is actually uncharitable

Bishops do the will of God ,not the will of evil men