{"id":2059,"date":"2011-04-28T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2011-04-28T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:29:00","slug":"the-bozek-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2059","title":{"rendered":"The Bozek Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a Google search on Father Marek Bozek recently to follow up on the blog entry<\/a> that I wrote about him back in August. Looks as though the court will rule any day now as to whether the Archdiocese of St. Louis has the contractual power to boot Bozek from St. Stanislaus, the renegade Catholic parish on the outskirts of the Gateway City. Keep an eye out, we should be seeing more headlines about the situation rather soon. <\/p>\n

I also saw some dirt about Bozek on a traditionalist Catholic web site; turns out that he was hedging his bets even before the Archbishop de-frocked him back in 2009. He was already a member of the Moonie-supported \u201cMarried Priest Now\u201d group, and also became a recognized priest in the Reformed Catholic Church, a relatively small schism group. Yea, that does make him seem a bit \u201crestless\u201d, and perhaps he is a bit of a loose canon. But as dirt goes these days, that ain’t exactly a Richter scale 7 earthquake. <\/p>\n

What is more interesting is that St. Stanislaus is not the only breakaway Catholic parish out there right now. There appear to be at least two others with similar stories, one in Cleveland (St. Peters parish) and one in Rochester, NY (a church called Spiritus Christi). Oh, and there’s one in Australia too, \u201cSt. Marys in Exile\u201d, in South Brisbane. Well, so far that makes four in the English-speaking world. <\/p>\n

Again, not exactly earth-shaking, not quite like the religious revolution that Luther lit up back in the 1520s and 30s. But something to keep an eye on \u2013 a couple of hundred Catholics who made the changeover from being standard Catholic parishioners to breakaway sect members, right in their own hometown churches. People who have been taught that what they are doing will condemn them to hell. And yet they keep on doing it, using traditional Catholic liturgy and values (but with some tweeks that are more in keeping with Episcopal or Protestant ecclesiology).<\/p>\n

Is this just a little hickup in Church history, or the start of something big? And if revolution were to come of it, will it be positive? We can’t even begin to guess right now. And that’s what makes it so interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a Google search on Father Marek Bozek recently to follow up on the blog entry that I wrote about him back in August. Looks as though the court will rule any day now as to whether the Archdiocese of St. Louis has the contractual power to boot Bozek from St. Stanislaus, the renegade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}