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...deeply offended by the Roman Catholic Church and its Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz for using the fear of excommunication as a tool for religious bigotry [RELIGION, May 27]. Bruskewitz threatened to excommunicate members of his diocese who belonged to groups deemed "perilous to the Catholic faith," including America's Freemasons, members of the DeMolay and other organizations. The rich history of Freemasonry dates back to colonial America and before. Some of our Founding Fathers, including George Washington, were dedicated Freemasons. Present-day Masonic organizations exist in all 50 states and continue to be in the mainstream of all that is good...
...would not call Bishop Bruskewitz a hard-liner, as you did. I think he is one of the best Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. He is taking a stand on weeding out those who are not true 100% Catholics. If people disagree with the bishop, then I suggest they switch to another religion, not attempt to change the Roman Catholic Church into a feminist liberal New Age Roman Catholic Church. Bravo, Bishop Bruskewitz! GERARD DONAHUE Greenbelt, Maryland Via E-mail...
...kind of snide denunciation usually reserved for dim-witted Hollywood moguls, not the sort of jab one would expect to find in a religious newspaper. But in the current issue of the National Catholic Reporter, columnist Tim Unsworth lambastes Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz as an incompetent cleric who has "been holding his cellular phone too close to his brain." What sparked the invective was Bruskewitz's move to excommunicate members of his diocese who belong to any of 12 groups deemed "perilous to the Catholic faith," including Call to Action, the Catholic lobby supported by 5,000 priests and nuns, which...
...Bruskewitz, one of only two U.S. bishops who forbids altar girls to assist at Mass, is the first American hierarch in more than 30 years to order a mass excommunication--an edict that prohibits Catholics from receiving the sacraments. His action has sparked dissent not only from area parishioners such as Jean and John Krejci, a former nun and former priest who said they would ignore the order, but also from church-law experts like Father James Coriden of Washington Theological Union, in Silver Spring, Maryland, who called the bishop's action, "harmful, wrong and canonically invalid...
...Bruskewitz has received encouragement from other bishops, and many parishioners back him too. "If you can't live up to what the church teaches," says Ed Petr of Hastings, Nebraska, "then you're in trouble...
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