A Recent Comment to an Older Post from Last Year

The supporters of St Stanislaus Kostka showed what they felt, when 2,000 to 3,000 showed up for Christmas Eve Mass. A vindictive archbishop helps
by driving St Louis Catholics and supporters to St Stans.

How can St Agathas be the Polish parish when the hearts and souls of >90% of the St Louis Polish community are committed to St Stans? Nie Możliwy!
Norman Pinkowski

(A quick side note: the stories originally ran stating maybe up to 1500 people were there. It has now doubled according to Mr. Pinkowski...This time next year, we will learn that, like the VP Fair, hundreds of thousands were in attendance)

Merely because an estimated 2000-3000 dissenters showed up for an illicit Mass conducted by an excommunicated priest does not mean that what transpired was right. As Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, stated, "Truth is not determined by a majority vote." And we can see that truth is not determined by the number of renegades and rebels showing up to support disobedience and arrogance.

The Polish Parish is now St. Agatha's because Archbishop Burke has designated it to be such. He alone possesses the lawful authority to decide this - not the confused or misled parishioners of the now suppressed non-Catholic church of St. Stanislaus. While they may call it whatever they wish, they can no longer call it "Catholic" for it isn't.

Venting calumnious phrases such as the "vindictive Archbishop", besides being objectively sinful, does nothing to rectify the situation...Mr. Pinkowski might be better served by discussing his frustrations with a legitimate priest in order to reconcile himself with the Church and with Christ.

The board and their hired 'priest' have made the decisions they have with full knowledge of the consequences. It would seem that those who truly love the Church and wish to remain Catholic would either leave ST. Stanislaus or work to restore it to its previous status as an authentic Catholic parish by selecting board members who would, themselves, be faithful and obedient servants of God and the Church. It's perhaps best to close the book on St. Stanislaus unless something remarkable happens in the future. And lest I forget, we should not fail to pray that this schism will be ended, if it be God's will.