"Call to Action" excommunication.
Lincoln, NE -- A Nov. 24, 2006 letter from Cardinal Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops The Congregation for Bishops (Congregatio pro Episcopis) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the selection of new bishops pending papal approval. It also schedules the papal audiences required quinquennially for bishops. , confirmed that the Vatican has upheld a 1996 excommunication excommunication, formal expulsion from a religious body, the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. Where religious and social communities are nearly identical it is attended by social ostracism, as in the case of Baruch Spinoza, excommunicated by the Jews. decree issued by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz Bishop Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz (born September 6, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln in the U.S. state of Nebraska. He has held that post since 1992. in relation to Call to Action and 11 other organizations. The Bishop had written in his decree that "membership in these organizations or groups is always perilous to the Catholic faith and most often is totally incompatible with the Catholic faith." Those who were part of CTA An abbreviation for cum testamento annexo, Latin for "with the will annexed." were invited to seek the Sacrament of Reconciliation, so that they could return to full communion with the Catholic Church. Those who refused to do so within a month of the decree were automatically excommunicated. CTA Nebraska's appeal to the Holy See was rejected.
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