The Vatican has upheld the excommunication of members of Call to Action issued in 1996 by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska.The Vatican has upheld the 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. of members of Call to Action issued in 1996 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. of Lincoln, Nebraska. At the time the bishop ruled that membership in 11 organizations, many associated with the Masons, resulted in automatic exclusion from the church and the sacraments, though his order is effective only in his diocese. Call to Action was the only group to appeal the ruling. According to Catholic News Service, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re J.C.D. (born January 30, 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church whose service has been primarily limited to the Roman Curia. He currently serves as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. 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. told Bruskewitz that the decision "was properly taken within your competence as pastor." |
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