1. Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz was born on September 6,1935 and is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln in Nebraska, from 1992 to 2012.
20 Facts About Fabian Bruskewitz
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Fabian Bruskewitz was born on September 6,1935, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Fabian Bruskewitz attended a local parochial school before studying at St Lawrence Seminary High School in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin and at St Francis Seminary in Milwaukee.
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Fabian Bruskewitz went to Rome to further his studies at the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University.
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Fabian Bruskewitz was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee by Cardinal Luigi Traglia on July 17,1960, at the Basilica dei Santi Apostoli in Rome.
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Fabian Bruskewitz later returned to the Gregorian University for graduate study, earning a Doctor of Dogmatic Theology degree in 1969.
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Fabian Bruskewitz briefly taught at St Francis Seminary before returning to Rome for an assignment in the Congregation for Catholic Education in the Roman Curia, where he worked for eleven years.
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Fabian Bruskewitz was raised by the Vatican to the rank of chaplain of his holiness in 1976, becoming an honorary prelate in 1980.
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That same year, Fabian Bruskewitz became pastor of St Bernard Parish in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
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Fabian Bruskewitz received his episcopal consecration on May 13,1992, from Archbishop Daniel E Sheehan, with Bishops Glennon Flavin and Leo Brust serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln.
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In 1998, according to a 2021 investigation by Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, Fabian Bruskewitz met with Monsignor Leonard Kalin, the vocations director at the Newman Center at the University of Nebraska.
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On September 6,2010, Fabian Bruskewitz submitted his letter of resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 for bishops.
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In 1997, Fabian Bruskewitz publicly opposed attempts from other bishops within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to reach out to parents trying to cope with LGBTQ children through the pastoral document, "All our children".
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Fabian Bruskewitz has emphasized therefore that bishops should never accept gay men into the priesthood because it encourages temptation as "priests are regularly in close proximity with children and young men".
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Fabian Bruskewitz was the only one of 195 bishops who refused to sign the USCCB Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.
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Fabian Bruskewitz gained national attention in 1996 for decreeing automatic excommunication on Catholics in the diocese for membership in the following groups.
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In 2004, Fabian Bruskewitz stated that he would deny the eucharist to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, including 2004 US presidential candidate and then US Senator John Kerry.
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In 2005, Fabian Bruskewitz voted to approve a USCCB resolution calling for an end to the practice of capital punishment.
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Fabian Bruskewitz continued to revere the Tridentine Mass after the Novus Ordo Mass had become the ordinary form of the Mass throughout the whole Church.
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In 2015 Fabian Bruskewitz issued a public letter urging Catholic women not to engage in yoga.