One more article on Fr. Hausen's Excommunication

The Rev. William Hausen knows just what he'll do when he gets the letter notifying him of his formal excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church: Frame it.
Excommunications are rare, said Bill Ryan, spokesman for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Two priests have excommunicated themselves under circumstances similar to Hausen's in the past 15 years.

The Rev. Jim Callan and pastoral administrator Mary Ramerman was excommunicated in 1999 in Rochester, N.Y., when they split to form another church. And the Rev. George August Stallings, of Washington, D.C., was excommunicated in 1989 when he founded the African American Catholic Congregation.

Pride....absence of humility - Satan exploiting man's fallen nature, taking advantage of man's loss of faith. It is so sad contemplating the pain our Lord because of people rejection of Him and His Church. Pray that this priest and his followers may repent and be reconciled to our Lord.

And note this, here in St. Louis, some at St. Cronan's Parish look to Jim Callan's "Spiritus Christi" as a model for Parish Leadership.