Vatican official upholds mass excommunication

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: December 10, 2006| Author: Josh Funk Associated Press | Copyright information

OMAHA, Neb. -- A Vatican official has upheld the 1996 mass excommunication of perhaps hundreds of people in the Lincoln Diocese affiliated with a church reform group and 10 other organizations the diocese considers anti-Catholic.

A Nov. 24 letter to Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz in Lincoln from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said Bruskewitz's excommunication decision "was properly taken within your competence as pastor of that diocese."

Re leads the church's Congregation for Bishops.

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