[5]: 44 According to Wacław Kruszka in Historya Polska w Ameryce, Kaminski did not attend any college, but learned how to play the organ from a local organist.
Anton Francis Kolaszewski [pl]'s original Immaculate Heart of Mary Church building and cemetery on August 18, 1894, he ordained Kaminski.
[6]: 101–103 Later that month, on March 31, 1895, calling him "a Polish nationalist who posed as a priest", Elia W. Peattie wrote, in the Omaha World-Herald: "Kaminski barricaded himself in the sanctuary and used firearms to retain control, wounding Xavier Dargaczewski and Frank Kraycki."
[5]: 44–45 According to Kruszka, the 1895 organization of a Roman Catholic parish in New Britain caused a four-month dispute over the location of its church.
[5]: 43 He wrote that, in June 1894, Apolinary Karwowski announced in Alfons Mieczysław Chrostowski's Jutrzenka, in Cleveland, that Kolaszewski and Wladyslaw Debski arrived in Buffalo to establish an independent parish.
In the division with the bishops, the parish kept very strictly to the rules of the norm of religious life, finding in it a further support for the rightness of their cause."
Return to the previous state of affairs, exist in isolation and then vanish, or create "a self-determined religious movement" are the three alternative results, according to Kubiak.
[11]: 86–87 According to Kruszka, the causes of this "social ulcer"[c] can be found several years earlier when Poles began immigrating to Buffalo in large numbers.
[12]: 50 After the formal constitution of the Polish Catholic Church in Buffalo, Kaminski as bishop-elect attempted to obtain consecration.
[5]: 43 It was deliberate and premeditated simony, the act of buying and selling an ecclesiastical office,[15] Vilatte demanded $5,000 for the consecration but Kaminski only had $600 to give.
[7]: 42 Only after Vilatte was bankrupt and had sold his house and cathedral in Green Bay was he less demanding and agreed to consecrate Kaminski.
[18]: 67 Anson wrote that in his agreement with Alvarez, Vilatte acknowledged that if he "deviated from their Canons and Rules, he would be subject to dismissal from the dignity of Metropolitan.
"[11]: 116 Kubiak wrote: There is no doubt that in many cases, [...] the same followers and inspirers of the independent parishes were activists in [...] unions and [...] the Socialist party.
In any case, in many instances independent parishes and groups of the Polish Socialist Alliance arose at the same time.
[11]: 117 [d]Just before the Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland and wider Revolution of 1905 in the Russian Empire, Stanislaw Osada, in Historya Związku Narodowego Polskiego i rozwój ruchu narodowego Polskiego w Ameryce Północne, wrote in the United States, that Russian agents endeavored to draw believers into Old Catholicism, not for faith but for "implanting in the womb of Catholicism"[e] the basis for Polish discord, to facilitate the russification of the Catholic Church.
[21]: 502 Kubiak quoted Osada: "There exists yet another danger, namely that in recent times the leaders of that movement (independent) quite unequivocally help spread among the Polish masses the slogans of the Revolutionary-Socialists.
[citation needed] From 1898 to 1911 he edited and published a weekly Polish newspaper Warta, an organ of his independent church.