St. Stanislaus looks at options

I heard on the radio this morning that board directors of St. Stanislaus met last night to discuss various options now that the Holy See has denied their request.

The report stated that three options were discussed: 1. doing what Archbishop Burke has stipulated, 2. Changing the church into a museum, or 3. breaking away from the Church and becoming independent.

For anyone to even consider option 3 as a legitimate alternative only shows the depths of the confusion of some people.

But that's not all:

"We're going to give that [one last meeting] a shot and see what happens," said Roger Krasnicki, a retired attorney and longtime St. Stanislaus parishioner. "We want to show good faith and that we really want to come to an agreement with them, notwithstanding their past intransigence."

WHAT!? What is this 'past intransigence' business??? The Archdiocese has been intransigent? This is completely understandable considering how 'flexible' and accomodating the board had been for the past decades, right? Someone call timeout for a reality check!

Krasnicki has said options for the parish, aside from giving in to Burke's demands, may include breaking from the Roman Catholic church and having an independent Catholic group minister to the parish.

One option is the Polish National Catholic Church, which formed in 1878 in Pennsylvania over a local bishop's desire to wrest property from Polish immigrants. The congregation got its own priest to minister to them. As a result, they were excommunicated.

Anyone who considers this as an option demonstrates that he is no longer capable of lucid, rational thought and should be considered an enemy of the faithful of the parish. Those who would consider schism as viable are not worthy to be in any leadership position.

It looks more and more like the issue is really over money...And this raises several other questions.

Article here.