I rather doubt there is any firm scriptural basis for excommunicating someone or any theological basis for it. If 'nothing can separate us from the love of God' and if the body is One, then how can any person be excommunicated? For sure the person doing the excommunicating to another does not look good. He looks un-Christian. Jesus said, 'treat them as you would a tax collector.' Recall that Jesus dined with tax collectors. I wonder when the Pope will dine with the women priests.

I am thinking now of the split between Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The leader of each faction excommunicated the other. See where that gets you? Like a thousand years of disunity. Now that the women priests have taken the lead on reform, there is a big opportunity for the official Church to step up and act adult and dialog and incorporate the reform.