Two More Face Excommunication at St. Stanislaus

Two more parishioners of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church face excommunication after being elected to the church's lay board Sunday.

In letters hand-delivered Saturday night, Bishop Robert Hermann, the Archdiocese of St. Louis' interim leader, warned eight parishioners who were running for positions on the board of their possible fate. Some of the parishioners returned home in the evening to find the letter taped to their front doors....

St. Stanislaus parishioners voted over two days this weekend to elect a new board, and on Sunday announced that four former board members — John Baras, William Bialczak, Stanley Novak and Joe Rudawski — had all been re-elected. Baras, Bialczak and Rudawski were the three board members who had voted to retain Bozek as pastor in June. Novak served an earlier term on the board. All four of their excommunications were upheld by the Vatican in May.

Richard Lapinski and Janice Merzweiler were the two new parishioners voted onto the new board Sunday. According to Hermann's letter, they now face excommunication....

Of these six, how many are there to "rubber stamp" whatever "Pope" Marek Bozek wants? How many of these new board members will cede parish control and resources to their self appointed messiah, the soon to be laicized priest? And who among them is really concerned for his own spiritual welfare and the spiritual welfare of his brothers and sisters in Christ? Certainly not the hired pastor who continues to lead them down the path of perdition!

It's encouraging to see that Bishop Hermann continues to show pastoral solicitude for the confused Catholics at St Stanislaus. Having been duped by an unscrupulous charlatan who wishes to lead parish members away from the Church of their fathers, the parishioners are being encouraged to shed the chains of dissent and rebellion which enslaves them.