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Excommunicated! I could have never imagined this wordused to describe me. Yet, this is exactly what happened because of my newbishop's extra-synodal legislation excommunicating Catholics who belong tocertain organizations. An active and engaged Catholic, I found myself confusedas I confronted a rigid church that demanded unquestioning obedience. I feltbetrayed by a church that educated me to use my mind and then punished me whenI did so. Unfortunately, what has long been the case in the Diocese of Lincolnis spreading to other dioceses as well.

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Rachel Pokora's Crisisof Catholic Authority is a book about the tenure of two successive RomanCatholic bishops in the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska--Glennon Flavin (1976-1992)and Fabian Bruskowitz (1992-2012)--and their impact on a small but determinedgroup of Catholics in that diocese who want to be part of our imperfect Church.It is an account of how these Catholics have managed to survive the coercivemisuse of liturgical and sacramental authority by those bishops and by some oftheir clergy over the Catholic people in that diocese. It is a sad commentaryon ecclesiastical abuse of well-meaning people who would like to remain faithfulto their Church. I recommend Crisis of Catholic Authority because it maybecome the reality in other Catholic dioceses if their bishops and clergy fencethemselves off from Vatican II and its reforms. --Dr.Carol Rittner, R.S.M., Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & GenocideStudies, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Whatis happening south of the Platte River, in a heretofore little--known diocese ofabout 83,000 Catholics, led by a man who relies on church law and obedience, has been so loud and ugly, has so captured the curiosity of the secular media, has so pitted the traditional concept of church against the reformist one, hasbrought forth so many charges and countercharges, so many editorials andcounter-editorials, that one is tempted to think there is some greater purpose, some unseen hand, at work. --PaulHendrickson, the Washington Post

Whatis happening south of the Platte River, in a heretofore little--known diocese ofabout 83,000 Catholics, led by a man who relies on church law and obedience, has been so loud and ugly, has so captured the curiosity of the secular media, has so pitted the traditional concept of church against the reformist one, hasbrought forth so many charges and countercharges, so many editorials andcounter-editorials, that one is tempted to think there is some greater purpose, some unseen hand, at work. --PaulHendrickson, the Washington Post Rachel Pokora's Crisisof Catholic Authority is a book about the tenure of two successive RomanCatholic bishops in the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska--Glennon Flavin (1976-1992)and Fabian Bruskowitz (1992-2012)--and their impact on a small but determinedgroup of Catholics in that diocese who want to be part of our imperfect Church.It is an account of how these Catholics have managed to survive the coercivemisuse of liturgical and sacramental authority by those bishops and by some oftheir clergy over the Catholic people in that diocese. It is a sad commentaryon ecclesiastical abuse of well-meaning people who would like to remain faithfulto their Church. I recommend Crisis of Catholic Authority because it maybecome the reality in other Catholic dioceses if their bishops and clergy fencethemselves off from Vatican II and its reforms. --Dr.Carol Rittner, R.S.M., Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & GenocideStudies, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Whatis happening south of the Platte River, in a heretofore little--known diocese ofabout 83,000 Catholics, led by a man who relies on church law and obedience, has been so loud and ugly, has so captured the curiosity of the secular media, has so pitted the traditional concept of church against the reformist one, hasbrought forth so many charges and countercharges, so many editorials andcounter-editorials, that one is tempted to think there is some greater purpose, some unseen hand, at work. --PaulHendrickson, the Washington Post<br> Rachel Pokora's Crisisof Catholic Authority is a book about the tenure of two successive RomanCatholic bishops in the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska--Glennon Flavin (1976-1992)and Fabian Bruskowitz (1992-2012)--and their impact on a small but determinedgroup of Catholics in that diocese who want to be part of our imperfect Church.It is an account of how these Catholics have managed to survive the coercivemisuse of liturgical and sacramental authority by those bishops and by some oftheir clergy over the Catholic people in that diocese. It is a sad commentaryon ecclesiastical abuse of well-meaning people who would like to remain faithfulto their Church. I recommend Crisis of Catholic Authority because it maybecome the reality in other Catholic dioceses if their bishops and clergy fencethemselves off from Vatican II and its reforms. --Dr.Carol Rittner, R.S.M., Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & GenocideStudies, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey<br>

Rachel Pokora's Crisisof Catholic Authority is a book about the tenure of two successive RomanCatholic bishops in the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska Glennon Flavin (1976-1992)and Fabian Bruskowitz (1992-2012) and their impact on a small but determinedgroup of Catholics in that diocese who want to be part of our imperfect Church.It is an account of how these Catholics have managed to survive the coercivemisuse of liturgical and sacramental authority by those bishops and by some oftheir clergy over the Catholic people in that diocese. It is a sad commentaryon ecclesiastical abuse of well-meaning people who would like to remain faithfulto their Church. I recommend Crisis of Catholic Authority because it maybecome the reality in other Catholic dioceses if their bishops and clergy fencethemselves off from Vatican II and its reforms. Dr.Carol Rittner, R.S.M., Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & GenocideStudies, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

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Rachel Pokora is a Professor of Communication at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She has a Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University 1996, with a major in organizational communication and a minor in religious studies. She has been active her entire lifetime in the Roman Catholic Church, with fifteen years as a member of Call To Action, Nebraska, including five years as President.

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