Yes, I miss him here also.
I think he was put off by some harassment he received from some followers of the Dimond Brothers. He was already in a difficult family situation, one that was certainly exacerbated when he lost his job over the bumper sticker incident.
I do hope he's not considering EO (that path has never made any sense to me, as the EOs are a mess), and apart from the post made above I've seen no indication that he was going in that direction. Eastern Rite Catholic, yes ... but not EO. Some people have a difficult time distinguishing between the two, for some reason, so the two often get conflated.