Canon lawyer praises Abp. Burke on "women priest" excommunication

Ed Peters, "Abp. Burke's excommunication of the 'women priests'" (In the Light of the Law: A Canon Lawyer's Blog on Current Issues, March 14, 2008), writes:

I would like to say that Abp. Raymond Burke's excommunication of three women who recently participated in a pseudo-ordination in Saint Louis is a "text-book illustration" of how (non-judicial) excommunication is supposed to be applied in the Church today, but I can't say that: Why not? Because Abp. Burke's attention to juridic details and his provisions for the pastoral care of the people entrusted to his care so exceed what the textbooks teach, that it is the textbooks that must copy from him, not him from the textbooks.

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Of related interest:

• Dr. Peters' "Excommunication Blotter"
  
  
• Edward N. Peters, Excommunication and the Catholic Church (Ascension Press, 2006).