St. Stanislaus Kosta Church of St. Louis
Voted on January 9 to Go Independent
From Immoral Newchurch Archbishop
In an indication that, in the wake of church closings and episcopal immorality, Newchurch parishes may finally be moving to "go independent" from Newchurch, the parishioners of St. Stanislaus Kosta parish in St. Louis voted 98% to go independent from Archbishop Raymond "Bully" Burke. This is the Newchurch archbishop who, having shielded his presbyter-perverts and received a transsɛҳuąƖ "nun" into final vows, is now trying to despoil the $10,000,000 property and assets of St. Stanislaus.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 98 percent of those voting at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church on January 9 rejected a measure ceding control of the church's property and finances to the St. Louis Archdiocese. Even board members who expected that the measure would be defeated were surprised by the strong show of support from the 304 people, out of 510 eligible, who voted. The corporation bylaws prevent the board from handing over church assets without the consent of parishioners.
Bully Burke is attempting this Mortal Sin of Injustice in spite of the fact that the parish property and assets are owned and controlled by a lay board under a not-for-profit religious corporation. This arrangement has persisted for 124 years and was approved by original bishop in perpetuity.
Burke is going to find out that he can huff and puff about Newchurch "interdicts," but he is not going to get the $10,000,000. Such "interdicts" are just as phony as the phony "excommunication" of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which ten of the pope's own most prominent Roman canonists have declared, to pope's embarrassment, was invalid. Why, then, should it surprise us that Newvatican, which is quite content to operate illegally, should support Bully Burke in this matter of the "Purloined Parish"?
These courageous parishioners of St. Stanislaus have told Burke and Newvatican in no uncertain terms that they are not going to give over their property in a hostile takeover by the New Order. They'll go independent first. And their "best case" situation seems to be ironclad legally.
All too many traditional Catholics view the current abysmal state of the Catholic Church as an inconvenience, an annoyance. Rather, they should look at the current situation as the early Roman martyrs did: as an opportunity to proclaim and suffer for the True Faith personally. One board member hit the nail on the head: "If the bishop does what he intends to do to the board, my feeling is I'm a martyr to the cause," he said. In Roman Catholic theology, this is known as "dry" martyrdom and gains much merit in Heaven for the martyr.
Bully Burke has barred Novus Ordo presbyters from celebrating Mass at the parish. Well, who needs them? Of all peoples, the Poles should feel a strong obligation to worship in the traditional Catholic Faith, not the Counterfeit New Order Religion. For example, parishioner Henry Marganski, 76, recalled years spent in a Siberian work camp as a teenager. When his family returned to Poland at the end of World War II, it was not the Counterfeit Newchurch and its Protestant-Masonic New-service that he returned to. Certainly not. It was the Roman Catholic Church and the Traditional Latin Mass. The time has come for these Poles to restore the True Faith to their parishioners. And Bully Burke has given them a golden opportunity to do so.
The board is already pursuing options to find a priest outside the diocese. This parish should take advantage of the opportunity to go all the way. Find an independent traditional Catholic priest, restore the true Mass and Sacraments, and be a beacon for traditional Catholicism around the world. There are currently a dozen traditional Catholic priests listed in TRADITIO's Traditional Catholic Priests Wanted and Available department.
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