Rick Majerus always said he felt comfortable coaching at a Catholic school.

Suppose he still feels the same way?

Majerus is under fire from the Archbishop of St. Louis, who believes the former Utah coach should be disciplined and maybe even fired from his job as the coach at St. Louis University for proclaiming his support of abortion rights and stem-cell research while making a campaign appearance in support of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

"It's not possible to be a Catholic and hold those positions," Archbishop Raymond Burke said. "When you take a position in a Catholic university, you don't have to embrace everything the Catholic church teaches. But you can't make statements which call into question the identity and mission of the Catholic church."

A university spokesman said Majerus was expressing his own personal views when he made his controversial comments, and the Missouri Supreme Court has affirmed that while the university is aligned with the Catholic Church, it is not controlled by it -- clearing the way for the city to contribute millions to the financing of a new downtown arena.

Burke, by the way, is the same guy who declared he would deny Sen. John Kerry communion because he supports abortion rights, and tried unsuccessfully to keep hot singer Sheryl Crow from performing at a fund-raiser for a medical center because she supports embryonic stem-cell research.