More on the subject of Fr. Marek Bozek and St. Staislaus Kostka Church. The folks at Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam have been going on about the goings on in the St. Louis Archdiocese for quite a long time.

In their post, Bishop Leibrecht defends suspension of AWOL priest; they enumerate all the ways in which they feel Fr. Bozek is Satan incarnate. Among the reasons cited is a beautiful homily he delivered on the salvation of souls.

In the homily (click here to read it for as long as St. Agnes Cathedral keeps it on-line) he states:

How many times have you heard some Christians and Catholics say things like, “take it or leave it” or “go somewhere else if you don’t like it” or “you know the teachings, you cannot be Catholic and do what you are doing at the same time”. There are many smart virgins nowadays who make everybody else feel so unwelcome in the Christian community. As a priest I often meet so called “fallen away” Catholics [w]ho were told to “go to hell” and they listened. They were and are struggling with one or another point of our Catholic faith or moral teachings; they were and are asking questions, admitting honestly that they are not 100% ready to meet the Bridegroom. They thought [t]hey have to fulfill all religious requirements in order to be invited, and so they left. And this is true foolishness.

The Ad Majoriam writers are exactly those people who tell everyone else to ‘go to hell’. That’s why they do not like the homily. Truth preached too close to home is dangerous.

They probably firmly believe in —Ex Ecclesia Nulla Salus— (Outside the [Roman Catholic] Church there is no salvation). Of course they believe what they wish, but since they are such sticklers for absolutes, now that Abp. Burke has excommunicated these people and has suppressed the parish, it is in effect, according to their laws, no longer —Roman— Catholic.

So I ask, why rail against the wind? These poor folks are now, to you, nothing more than abject mortal sinners in a schismatic church destined for hell. Why not rail against the Orthodox or any Protestant Church, whom, according to you are equally schismatic and destined for hell.

$9.5 million for your Abp makes you want to break out the broad axe of innuendo, detraction and calumny (also mortal sins as they are done with full knowledge) me thinks.

So it goes. I need not defend the St. Stan’s faithful. They do very well on their own. I simply point out what is obvious from Fr. Bozek’s homily.

We all sin, we all are imperfect, but continue to strive, continue to work, continue to hold people to the church. But we must not kill the seed that has been planted in each individual. We are not predestined to fall on rocky soil or among thorns. We are all intended for good soil. Woe to those who uproot and kill —“ for that is not our job.