Here is their response.
They can excommunicate all of us. These filthy heretics, effeminates, apostates and Freemasons have no authority over the faithful. They will soon all fall. There time is very, very short.
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great