Thursday, December 7, 2006

Holy See Upholds Excommunication Decree for Call to Action

So reports tomorrow's edition of the Southern Nebraska Register (temporary URL) on the appeal to the Vatican from Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz's 1996 excommunication of members of Call To Action Nebraska.
A Nov. 24 letter from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops, confirmed that the Holy See agrees with Bishop Bruskewitz’s ruling on the matter. ...

In his letter, Cardinal Re stated, "The judgment of the Holy See is that the activities of 'Call to Action' in the course of these years are in contrast with the Catholic Faith…Thus to be a member of this Association or to support it, is irreconcilable with a coherent living of the Catholic Faith."

(via Comment by Sparki at Open Book)

Update: In a comment to a later post Sparki says she wrote the article for the diocesan paper.

She also writes the Fonticulus Fides weblog.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:46 PM

    When I found the original letter from Bishop B the Society of Pius X is listed. Any word on that?

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  2. SSPX didn't appeal the original extrasynodal legislation, so the Vatican hasn't said anything one way or another about them.

    Cardinal Re's letter confirms only the excommunication of members of Call to Action.

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