Bishop Bruskewitz Interview

The Wanderer has posted "the complete text of an interview Christopher Manion conducted with Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., about the relationship of his diocese with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Review Board."

Q. What prompted your response to the published letter from Mrs. Ewers to Bishop Skylstad?
A. I was speechless with indignation, and I refuse to be bossed around by these people. It was explicit in a published report that was put on the Internet, an attack on the Diocese of Lincoln.

A pathetic bunch of bureaucrats, no doubt. Catholics? Hardly...

Bishop Bruskewitz: . . . "the people who serve on that board. Some Board members support abortion very strongly, such as Leon Panetta. Paul McHugh, a Kinseyite from Johns Hopkins University, has supported human cloning. This is publicized in some of the USCCB’s own publications like Origins.
. . .
"It’s a standing disgrace that some of these people who call themselves Catholic don’t understand the heinous evil that they support. That we should give them a position of prominence in the Church is an outrage."

Many faithful Catholics have longed questioned the lack of prudence (or pure stupidity) in selecting some of the people to serve on the board...Just one more of many reasons that the USCCB has become so irrelevant. One might be prone to wonder if the organization can truly be called Catholic?

With respect to being the "only" diocese in the U.S. which does not allow altar "girls", His Excellency states:

. . .as I’ve said many times, if I see a diocese, chiefly because of altar girls, with convents overflowing with novices, and hundreds of priests being ordained, then I’ll change my mind. In the meantime, we’ll just continue in the old traditional way.

If you recall, such was a reason given by the Arlington diocese recently, when it allowed girls to serve at the altar - it might be good for vocations...OK...

Please keep Bishop Bruskewitz in your prayers - facing the behemoth of the USCCB, he probably needs them. Full interview here.