Actions Speak Louder than Words

Nothing exposes the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the public position of the St. Stanislaus Board and its Pastor like the antics of Fr. Bozek in the last month.

What has he done?

In addition to continuing, in defiance of a command from his Bishop (of Springfield-Cape Girardeau) and a declared excommunication by Archbishop Burke, to lead a schismatic church that endangers the souls of all of his parishioners, he is also guilty of the following acts of schism, dissent or disunity:

1. He participated in the fake ordination ceremony of Elsie McGrath and Rose Hudson, even as much as participating in the laying of hands on the "ordinands".


2. As such, he is now in public dissent against the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church regarding the impossibility of women becoming priests.


3. As such, he is in public support of a movement whose leaders have been excommunicated by then-Cardinal Ratzinger and of two schismatic pretend priests who have incurred excommunication latae sententiae.


4. His own Church has become a haven for dissenters and those who support women's ordination and the other ideological baggage of that crowd.


5. He has publicly stated he would consider joining "another" Catholic "denomination".


6. Though his parish has been suppressed, his Board under interdict and excommunication, he continues to advertise his parish as a Roman Catholic Parish, thus sowing confusion among the faithful.


7. He has shown contumely for the ordinary of this Archdiocese, Archbishop Burke, deliberately attempting to bring His Grace into disrepute.

Remember how the St. Stan's crowd told us ad nauseam that the only issue was about the money? How the mean Archbishop went back on a prior Archbishop's agreement? Schism breeds heresy. It was all a ruse to be their own master, apart from the guidance and authority of the Church. Whether they intended it or not, the Board and parishioners decided to start their own Church. And now they have their own doctrine-- just not a Catholic doctrine.

A comment from a reader in a prior post put the question-- do you think that the parishioners of St. Stan's knew what they were getting into? Do you think if you had put the decision of the Board to a vote of the parish (as it was formerly constituted before the influx of dissenters attracted by the "Cause" of sticking it to the Archbishop), and that instead of the propaganda they foisted on the parishioners the Board was forced to put the results of their plan out in the open, that the parish would agree to a public statement as follows?:

We, the members of St. Stanislaus Parish, hereby leave the Catholic Church and force our parishioners to forego valid sacramental confession, valid sacramental matrimony, and to be deprived of Catholic burial in St. Louis Catholic cemeteries. We further resolve that we support women's ordination, and will consider active homosexuals for the priesthood. We promise to fail to abide by any decision from the Holy Father that supports the actions of Archbishop Burke. We resolve to hire a new pastor against the wishes of his Bishop and who is without canonical faculties. We resolve to allow this pastor to bring our parish into further disrepute by his unique, non-Catholic, publicly-held positions and public actions. We will show no remorse but will take every opportunity to cast our Archbishop in a bad light. Finally, if any of these actions or statements ever catch up with us, we will join some other protestant sect while continuing to call ourselves Catholics.

By the actions of Bozek and the Board, this is what they have done. By the actions of Bozek and the Board, St. Stan's has become a joke much more bitter than St. Cronan's.

Yes, it WAS all about the money. And the Board did, and would do, everything to keep anyone from scrutinizing what they do with money donated by Catholics to what was a Catholic parish.

St. Stanislaus, pray for us!