From November 29, 2016, online published Crux Article , " Vatican judge says cardinal-critics of pope could lose red hats",   the head of the Vatican’s main working court,  the Roman Rota.  Father Pio Vito Pinto said.   “What they [the cardinals] have done is a very grave scandal, which could even lead the Holy Father to take away their red hats, as it’s happened already in some other times in the Church,” 
Father Vito Pinto said.  "Faced with what the Church calls “irregular situations”- which he didn’t specify, but which could run from divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to gay Catholics in a civil marriage - Vito Pinto asked: “What do we do? Turn the Church into a prison? Stand at the door of the parish and say: ‘You yes [can go in], you no?"