Dec. 7, 2006 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican has confirmed an American bishop’s decision to excommunicate members of the dissident group Call to Action.
Call to Action is “causing damage to the Church of Christ,” wrote Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, in a letter to Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska.
...The Vatican has determined that “the activities of ‘Call to Action’ in the course of these years are in contrast with the Catholic Faith due to views and positions held which are unacceptable from a doctrinal and disciplinary standpoint,” Cardinal Re writes. He concludes: “Thus to be a member of this Association or to support it, is irreconcilable with a coherent living of the Catholic Faith.”
The excommunication that Bishop Bruskewitz announced covered not only to Call to Action, but also to members of Catholics for a Free Choice, Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock Society, the Freemasons, and the Society of St. Pius X.
The excommunication order applies only within the Lincoln, Nebraska diocese. But the Vatican’s judgment against Call to Action raises clear questions about the status of the group’s members in other dioceses.
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The Society of Saint Pius X one kinda confused me because of the international implications, the fact that a few members of that order were accepted into a new order, and due to a previous judgement by Vatican officials that attendance at a Mass held by this order satisfied one's Sunday obligation.
I don't know all the details, but attendance at an Orthodox Divine Liturgy also satisfies one's Sunday obligation, and we are not in communion with them (yet!?).
It could have been a disobedience thing back in the 90's. I think it's the Priestly Fraturnity of St. Peter that is in Communion and that is made up of some former SPXXers.
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