Thursday, March 22, 2007

Valid Confessions?

From page 8 of the March St Stanislaus Kostka Church Bulletin (PDF file):
March 31 - Lenten Communal Penance Service
As a part of our preparations to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus with renewed spirits, our Parish will conduct a Lenten Penance Service on Saturday, March 31st at 5:30 p.m. In addition to our pastor, several priests will be available to hear individual confessions.

I sent an email to Mr. Bozek asking if these additional priests are, in fact, 1) Roman Catholic, 2) from this archdiocese, and 3) if they have the requisite faculties to hear confession and grant absolution.

Certainly these will not be priests from this archdiocese, will they? It would seem that any priest who facilitates in the exercise of the sacraments at a suppressed parish and at the direction of an excommunicated and schismatic priest would be subject to some canonical ecclesiastical penalties. It should be understood that Marek Bozek cannot validly absolve anyone in the Sacrament of Penance, nor can he validly confirm anyone in the Sacrament of Confirmation (that too is listed in the bulletin), nor can he validly officate at weddings (also in the bulletin)...(See Archbishop Burke's December 2005 column on the schism here.

Maybe Bozek will answer the email...Maybe it's time to go to St Stans to see who might be aiding and abetting this schism.


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