MASSACHUSETTS
Southcoast Today
By Matt Camara
mcamara@s-t.com
November 20, 2013
NEW BEDFORD — About a dozen parishioners have formed a committee to reinstate the Rev. Marek Chmurski as the pastor of St. Lawrence Martyr Church and the parish remains divided over Bishop George W. Coleman’s decision to remove him.
“We strongly believe that there was no consensus by the congregation on the issues raised against Father Chmurski. We believe that documentations presented were not objectively written,” the group called Parishioners Seeking Justice for Father Chmurski wrote in a letter to The Standard-Times.
The group objects to an attempt by other parishioners who last year wrote the bishop concerned about Chmurski’s ministry.
The Fall River Diocese conducted a year-long inquiry into Chmurski’s ministry of St. Lawrence — New Bedford’s oldest parish — and removed him in a Sept. 30 decree. The decree came after the bishop had asked for Chmurski’s resignation the previous June.
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