Thanks for that Joe Offer.

Yes there were a few priests excommunicated for the reasons you state, However, there were manny more good Christian folk excommunicated, shunned,careers shortened or impacted, tortured and even killed (Inquistions, Crusades, wars, political interventions, and through colonizations and missionary work) by the Roman Catholic church throughout history, and because they merely sought religeous thruth, a different Christian direction and interpretation than the Roman Catholic church...or were seeking scientific knowledge.