“Revelations suggesting that John Paul II knowingly covered up sexual abuse by reassigning priest perpetrators when he was cardinal-archbishop of Krakow have have provoked extreme and contrasting reaction's in the late pope's native Poland.”
“Pope Francis has compared the war in Ukraine to Operation Reinhardt, the code-name of a secret Nazi-led operation during World War II that killed about two-million Polish Jews.”
“The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople – who is considered the primus inter pares or "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy – has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and fighting between the two predominantly Orthodox countries, during a three-day visit to Poland.”
“Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, president of the Catholic Episcopal Conference of Poland (KEP), has warned Church leaders in Germany not to allow the country's Synodal Path to deviate from official Church teaching.”
“But the new measures in Krakow differ substantially from those in other Polish dioceses, according to Father Adam Żak, the Episcopal Conf's coordinator for youth protection. "By presenting a series of unacceptable situations, (this report) is in fact a vademecum of behavior to be adopted," ”
“Thousands of asylum-seeking migrants stranded in freezing temperatures at the borders between Belarus and Poland, Lithuania, Latvia are in dire need of basic life-saving shelter and medical aid, according to Caritas Europa, the Catholic humanitarian agency.”
“That practice sometimes leads to interesting juxtapositions, as on the recent morning that I read about Polish bishops who during their ad limina visits to Rome complained that sanctions on bishops who have mishandled cases of clerical sexual abuse have been too severe.”
“The Catholic bishops of Poland have made no secret of the fact that, during their recent "ad limina" visits to Rome, they protested the severity of sanctions the Vatican has recently imposed on some of their confreres who allegedly mishandled sex abuse cases.”
“The president of the Conference of Major Seminaries in Poland, Reverend Piotr Kot, has revealed that the once staunchly Catholic homeland of St. John Paull is experiencing a 20% drop in seminary enrollment this year.”
“A documentary that aired in November 2020 in Poland painted a much tarnished image of Dziwisz. The documentary, which was broadcast on the Polish network TVN24, explored two cases of pedophilia dating from the time when Dziwisz was Archbishop of Krakow. ”
“The Catholic Church in Poland has been plunged into even deeper crisis after a new report this week revealed that nearly 30 percent of recent cases of child sexual abuse were committed by priests.”
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Poland split over John Paul II abuse cover-up revelations
Pope compares war in Ukraine to Nazi-led “Operation Reinhard”
Patriarch Bartholomew says inter-Orthodox war is "absolutely unacceptable”
Poland’s top bishop warns Germans over Synodal Path
Polish archbishop issues "instructions" for protecting minors
Caritas pleads for help to save migrants on Belarus borders
If it happens on your watch
Polish bishops say Vatican sanctions for abuse cover-up are too harsh
Poland sees significant drop in seminary admissions
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco was in Poland to investigate John Paul's former secretary
One-third of child sex abuse in Poland is committed by priests
