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To: gbcdoj
Guess how much am I surprised that the archdiocesan bureaucrats support Burke's power-grab?

SaveStStans.org tells a different story.

80 posted on 12/26/2005 7:19:54 PM PST by I Believe It's Not Butter
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To: I Believe It's Not Butter
SaveStStans.org tells a different story.

A false story.

The original bylaws and the revised bylaws (2001, 2004) are publicly available on the Archdiocesan website. I've linked you to them already. Why don't you show all of us ignorant Catholics why SaveStStans.org is right and the Archdiocese wrong?

Let me help you out. Here are the points of the "archdiocesan bureaucrats" about the original bylaws. Following is the language from the bylaws proving each right.

• Archbishop appoints six directors and successor directors; the Pastor is also a director

SECOND. This corporation shall receive as its President such person as said Archbishop, or in his absence, the Vicar-General of said Diocese, or in his absence, the Administrator of said Diocese, may appoint as the pastor of said parish of Polish Roman Catholic St. Stanislaus Parish and whenever such person shall be removed from said position of pastor by said Archbishop, Vicar-General or Administrator of said Diocese, said office of President of said corporation shall become vacant, and such person so removed shall not exercise or have any power or authority as President of said corporation, and shall cease to be a member of its Board of Directors. ...

NINTH. Whenever the office of director shall become vacant, the Archbishop of said Diocese, or in his absence, said Vicar-General or Administrator of said Diocese, shall have the right to appoint any member of said corporation possessing the qualification set forth in the charter, to fill said vacancy. If said Archbishop, Vicar-General or Administrator, fail to make such appointment within two months after delivery to him of a notice in writing of such vacancy, then the President of said corporation may make such appointment.

• Any dispute or controversy among the directors is referred to the Archbishop whose decision is final and binding

EIGHTH. If any dispute or controversy arise between the members of said Board of Directors which they cannot settle, they shall submit same, without delay, to the decision of said Archbishop of said Diocese of St. Louis, and if he be absent, to the Vicar-General, and in his absence to the Administrator of said diocese of St. Louis, and the decision of said Archbishop, Vicar-General or Administrator, shall be final and binding on all parties. Either party refusing to abise by said decision, after being duly notified in writing thereof, shall forthwith cease to be a director of said corporation, and his place shall be declared vacant by the other members of said Board of Directors.

• The powers of the corporation must be exercised in accordance with Church law and any amendment to the Bylaws must not conflict with Church law

FIRST. The corporate powers of the corporation shall, under the laws of the State of Missouri, be exercised in conformity with the principles and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be established from time to time, for the government of said church, by the Roman Catholic Archbishop in the Diocese of St. Louis, or by his authority. ...

TWELFTH. ... Nor shall any amendments be made at any time which shall in anywise be in conflict with any law of the State of Missouri, or with any rule, regulation or requirement of the said Diocese of St. Louis in force at the time of such proposed change.

• Upon dissolution of the corporation, all assets become the property of the Archbishop

Art. VII. In the event that said corporation be dissolved by reason of any nonuser or misuser of its corporate powers, or from any other cause, then, and in that event, all property of said corporation, at the time of such dissolution, shall, subject to payment of the corporate debts, become the absolute property of the individual who, at said time, shall be the Roman Catholic Archbishop of said Diocese of St. Louis. (From the Original Charter, not the Bylaws)

81 posted on 12/26/2005 7:58:19 PM PST by gbcdoj (Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us Jud 8:17)
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