Once A Priest Always A Priest

This Get Religion Story has a Louisiana angle too.

On that angle I am relived to here this

In an interview yesterday, Bourgeois, 70, a Louisiana native, said he has stopped wearing a clerical collar and celebrating the Eucharist and other sacraments out of respect for the church’s view that he has been excommunicated.
But, he also said at one point, simply, “I am a priest.”