How does the decree of excommunication work regarding this? If a member of CTA or one of the other groups crosses the border into the Lincoln diocese, are they de jure excommunicated? Or does one have to belong to a parish under Bishop B’s jurisdiction for the decree to affect you?
They remain ex communicated until they follow the ACTUAL steps outlined in the article below.
"The Vatican has upheld Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz’s decision 10 years ago that membership in Call to Action “is totally incompatible with the Catholic faith” and results in automatic excommunication for Catholics in the Diocese of Lincoln.
In a Nov. 24 letter to the Lincoln bishop, made public Dec. 8, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops, told Bishop Bruskewitz that his ruling “was properly taken within your competence as pastor of that diocese.”
“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 due to views and positions held which are unacceptable from a doctrinal and disciplinary standpoint,” the cardinal said in his letter.
“Thus to be a member of this association or to support it is irreconcilable with a coherent living of the Catholic faith,” he added.
Bishop Bruskewitz said he hopes Cardinal Re’s letter will bring clarity to Catholics who have continued their affiliation with Call to Action, Call to Action Nebraska or the 10 other groups cited in the original “statement of extrasynodal legislation,” a formal canonical notice that they would be automatically excommunicated if they remained members of those groups.
“My prayer will always be that when people understand they have taken a wrong turn, they will stop and take the right turn,” the bishop said.
He said Catholics who wish to return to full communion with the church must repudiate their membership in the groups by sending a letter to the organization and having their names removed from any rosters or mailing lists. Then they can seek out the sacrament of reconciliation, where their priests can guide them in confession and penance.
Although the Vatican letter only dealt with Call to Action, the other groups named by Bishop Bruskewitz were: Planned Parenthood, Society of St. Pius X, Hemlock Society, St. Michael the Archangel Chapel, Freemasons, Job’s Daughters, DeMolay, Eastern Star, Rainbow Girls and Catholics for a Free Choice.
The Hemlock Society works to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and Planned Parenthood and Catholics for a Free Choice both support keeping abortion legal.
Job’s Daughters, DeMolay, Eastern Star and Rainbow Girls all are affiliated with the Masons. The Society of St. Pius X and St. Michael the Archangel Chapel both oppose the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and celebrate Mass in the Tridentine rite." more…
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