Excommunications follow child-rape and abortion

It seems that I am living in a time warp. 

The German press today reported the case of a 9 year old Brazilian girl that was raped by her stepfather. The girl was pregnant with twins and the mother, with the support of the medical advisers, arranged an abortion.

What does the local Archbishop do? He orders excommunication of the girl's mother and the doctors involved!

BBC Link.

Maybe the archbishop is bestowing the greatest gift of all by releasing these individuals from a doctrine of medieval beliefs that no longer has a place in a modern civilized society.

It gets better. The Vatican defends Brazil excommunication.

For me there is no difference between Mullah Omar and the Pope. We drop bomb on one and give money to the other.