Sobczuk came to the United States in 2018 from Poland while a student member of the Society of Jesus. When he left the community in 2019, Stika hired him, bringing him to Knoxville for a period of evaluation before accepting him as a diocesan seminarian. Stika eventually invited Sobczuk to live in the bishop’s residence until his seminary studies could begin.
Stika told The Pillar he brought the seminarian to Knoxville after a strong recommendation from Polish Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz.
The Pillar has unable to reach Dziwisz for comment.
According to the lawsuit, Sobczuk was dismissed from the Jesuits amid allegations of sexual misconduct, which, the suit alleges, Stika should have known about when he brought the man to the Knoxville diocese in January 2019.
On Feb. 5, 2019, while Sobczuk was employed by the diocese as Stika’s assistant and still being evaluated as a candidate for priestly formation, he allegedly raped the lawsuit’s plaintiff, an organist at the diocesan cathedral, whom he allegedly continued to sexually harass after the rape.
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Good morning Don.
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Thank God we have some sanity and courage left in our land.
[Up all night helping out third shift]
Peace.
So many good Catholics came from the Poland, including a pope. But, after communism/secularism one recent Polish immigrant told me that “I didn’t really become Catholic until I came to America”. Obviously she was expressing her view that the Church in Poland is not what it once was.
If only we could consult Doctor of the Church, St. Peter Damian, on what to do next with Swishop Stika? I’m sure he’d have an answer. No worries, we have Bergoglio.
I don’t know that it was ever as strong as it looked, at least with respect to the hierarchy. There were saintly men among them, but the reality is that Eastern Bloc Catholicism was frozen in amber, at least as far as clericalism is concerned. The big exception being the Ukrainian Church, may God protect it.
So, Bp. Stika was so-o impressed with a dismissed former Jesuit scholastic from Poland that he just had to have him live with him in his own residence.
The part about the good bishop knowing nothing of Sobczuk’s prior history of sexual misconduct is not credible at all. In fact likely it was a positive recommendation to Stika.
Nothing to see here, no, no, just move along..