text: Excommunication is more a means of vengeance by an exasperated member of the hierarchy---than any spiritual remedy.  In today's world---such threats only arouse anger, resentment, and retaliation.  The Church is not just Bishop Paprocki.  It is ALL baptized Catholics.  The vast majority of them [sensus fidelium] do not agree with Paprocki's extreme pronouncements [or with other bishops who share his concepts].  His actions will do more to bolster people to stand against him---rather than not.
  
  Secondly, Paprocki only speaks for his diocese.  Other arch/dioceses have not adopted his extreme pronouncements, and they probably never will. We have had too many cases in the Church's history where people have been threatened with excommunication or actually excommunicated.  Today, these people who were threatened with excommunication or actually excommunicated, are considered as great persons within the Church or revered as actual canonized saints.