Lots of commenting on Amy Welborn's Open Book Blog Background: Bishop Bruskewtiz's history with the fallout from the sexual abuse scandal has been unique - he's refused to submit the Lincoln diocese to the processes and procedures mandated by the Review Board. In other words, Lincoln is "non-compliant."
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz has made strong statements about the Bishop's Review Board. The Diocese of Lincoln has nothing to be corrected for, since the Diocese of Lincoln is and has always been in full compliance with all laws of the Catholic Church and with all civil laws.
Canonist Ed Peters, formerly of Duluth, weighs in: Bp. Bruskewitz is defying legislation that was legitimately passed by the episcopal conference and which received Rome's considered and express approval. And I think that's a problem.
And Amy says "the National Review Board is a group that, in a sense, speaks to the bishops about how the bishops should conduct themselves in the context of a particular ecclesiology, and it makes no sense for those who thumb their nose at that, by publicly dissenting from the teaching the bishops are sworn to uphold, to be in the role that they are.
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