Posted on 08/11/2008 8:45:31 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
ST. LOUIS — Two more parishioners of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church face excommunication after being elected to the church's lay board Sunday.
In letters hand-delivered Saturday night, Bishop Robert Hermann, the Archdiocese of St. Louis' interim leader, warned eight parishioners who were running for positions on the board of their possible fate. Some of the parishioners returned home in the evening to find the letter taped to their front doors.
In the letter, Hermann noted that a Vatican decree in May said holding a seat on the St. Stanislaus board "constitutes an 'evident' act of schism."
Schism is defined in church law as "the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him."
Hermann asked all the candidates to withdraw their names from consideration for the election. "You are in danger of losing the eternal salvation of your soul, jeopardizing the salvation of other innocent faithful and inflicting a most severe wound to the communion of the Roman Catholic church," he wrote.
The archdiocese had filed a motion in St. Louis Circuit Court to try to stop the elections but dropped that demand last week as part of a compromise with St. Stanislaus.
The church agreed to cancel a second vote scheduled for this weekend that would have amended its bylaws for the third time in seven years. Each of the previous bylaw changes further distanced St. Stanislaus from the authority of the St. Louis archbishop.
The new bylaws would have made it more difficult to fire St. Stanislaus' pastor, the Rev. Marek Bozek, an action the church's most recent board had taken up.
In June, the church's six board members deadlocked twice on the question of firing Bozek. At a third meeting, Bozek broke the deadlock himself, dissolving
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
A little more background as to the church's dispute with the archdiocese can be found here, here, and here...
[the Rev. Marek Bozek's] vision for a reformed Roman Catholic faith calls for supporting female ordination, allowing priests to get married and accepting gay relationships. Bozek's stands have attracted hundreds of new St. Stanislaus parishioners who share the priest's reform-minded vision.
When these people were still a part of the original Corpus Christi Church, Fr. Callan was blessing gay unions and prepping Mary Ramerman for the "Priestesshood".
How very Lutherian.
Seriously, it can only be a good thing to rid the true church of leftwing sexualists and gender-identity fanatics.
Honestly I don't believe The Church has been nearly aggressive enough in terms of excommunications where St Stan is concerned.
It was my parish in Springfield Missouri that Mr. Bozek (I refuse to recognize his title) abandoned in order stoke his ego as the “savior” of St. Stanislaus.
Honestly I don't believe The Church has been nearly aggressive enough in terms of excommunications where St Stan is concerned.
I'm sorry that you and your fellow parishioners are having to go through this. The Diocese of Rochester's Bishop Clark looked the other way for 20 years before Cardinal Ratzinger forced Clark's hand to remove Fr. Callen. Here's a link of the story in their own words:
Is there wide-spread support for "Mr. Bozek" withing the St. Stanislaus parish?
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