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Article: Lincoln's Roman Catholic bishop may be right, but his actions are wrong.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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- April 17, 1996
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. _ There is a storm brewing over the plains of Nebraska, one of those violent kinds of storms that you see in the Plains states. This one is threatening to rip apart the Roman Catholic Church there.
The Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, the Rt. Rev. Fabian Bruskewitz, is threatening to excommunicate all Catholics who belong to any or all of 12 organizations which the bishop believes are inimical to the faith.
The two biggest organizations on the list are Planned Parenthood and Call to Action. The latter is a reform organization that says it is devoted to social justice. It has, according to reports, 15,000 members nationwide, ...