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Lincoln Journal Star
By ERIN ANDERSEN / Lincoln Journal Star
Bishop James D. Conley has 2,413 friends on Facebook.
His Twitter profile sports a picture of Herbie Husker with a Jayhawk head.
Clearly, the new leader of Lincoln’s Catholic diocese is not your average cleric.
But when it comes to his faith, make no mistake, Bishop Conley is a man of firm conviction and religious principles.
Conley, the ninth bishop to lead Lincoln’s 125-year-old diocese, officially took the helm on Nov. 7 — the morning after the re-election of President Barack Obama.
Conley will be installed formally at 2 p.m. Nov. 20 in a ceremony at Cathedral of the Risen Christ Church. To date, 38 bishops from around the country have RSVPed to attend.
Conley, 57, replaces retiring Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, who led the diocese for 20 years. …
And Bruskewitz is proudly ultra-conservative in his views of God’s word and the expectations of the Catholic Church.
Those principles have earned Lincoln the reputation as the nation’s most conservative diocese. It is the only diocese in the country not to allow girl altar servers. And it is the only diocese not participating in annual sex abuse audits instituted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to address the issue of sexual abuse by clergy.
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