Posted on 10/19/2020 8:39:20 PM PDT by ebb tide
Polish police removed Salesian Father Michał Woźnicki, 54, from his room while he was celebrating an October 19 Traditional Latin Mass.
Woźnicki was suspended for alleged “disobedience” in 2016, and expelled from his order in 2018. Nevertheless, he kept living in the Salesian house in Poznan where he built an altar in his room in order to say Mass for some faithful.
The priest doesn't comply with coronavirus restrictions and doesn't use masks. Therefore, in a spirit of mercy, the Salesians called police.
When the officers entered, Woźnicki told them to kneel down in front of the Blessed Sacrament. A policeman replied bumptiously that they don't accept orders but want to see the ID cards of all present, threatening them with “physical force.”
Woźnicki pointed to the masked face of the policeman and concluded from this, that "villains have invaded my room.” Finally, the policemen carried the priest and his altar boy away.
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In Poland? Ok, the end times are really upon us.
“In Poland? Ok, the end times are really upon us”.
I hear you. Poland, of all places. Unbelievable and disgusting..
This would never have happened under John Paul II.
In Poland? Ok, the end times are really upon us.
If you know the details of Catholic religious life, this is something right out of the middle ages, or the renaissance, and JP II wouldn’t be surprised at it happening in Poland.
JP II did his thesis on John of the Cross, a Carmelite who died ca. 1612, and who spent some of his life locked up in prison by his confreres. There is a famous story about his escape from Prison, but I’ve managed to forget just about all of the details.
A religious that the order thinks they have expelled but who rejects the being tossed out is same song, different verse.
Dissent against the immediate community isn’t generally seen as a great thing if the community believes its position well reasoned. That said, I think that the Italians and the French will generally be more tolerant than the Poles. The Salesians tend to be pretty chill-—for better or worse—but these are Polish Salesians. The EF is a flash point.
Poles, like everyone, have cultural traits, some of which are to my taste and some not so much. My parish is run by Polish OMIs, and it is a fairly good fit. For OMI’s, I think they are extremely strict, but for Poles, very chill. Whatever it is, it seems to work. And is what God sent.
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