The Catholic church has finally suspended rogue racebaiter and Jeremiah Wright buddy Michael Pfleger from his parish and his faculties as a priest.

Why? Because apparently Pfleger threatened to leave the Catholic church if he couldn’t get his way. One problem: The church doesn’t take kindly to being threatened with departure by priests demanding changes of location. Go figure.

“Citing what he called threats from the Rev. Michael Pfleger to leave the church, Cardinal Francis George has removed the outspoken priest from St. Sabina parish and has suspended his “sacramental faculties as a priest.”

Pfleger had publicly feuded with the cardinal about possibly being reassigned to Leo High School, telling a radio show recently that he would look outside the Catholic church if offered no other choice.

“If that is truly your attitude, you have already left the Catholic Church and are therefore not able to pastor a Catholic parish,” George wrote in a letter dated today.

Pfleger should have been suspended long ago. He was preaching a rogue message of racebaiting and hatred. He was spending his time with left-wing extremists who openly expressed racist, anti-American and antisemitic remarks. He was an embarrassment to the church.