Stepping Down: Stanislaw Wielgus, newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw, attending Mass. Wielgus resigned Jan. 7.
Posted on 01/09/2007 10:56:48 AM PST by lizol
Lessons from an Archbishop’s Fall
To take control of its own history, the Catholic Church in Poland needs to vet miles of communist-era police records.
By George Weigel Newsweek Updated: 5:49 p.m. ET Jan. 8, 2007
Jan. 8, 2007 - The dramatic resignation this past Sunday of the newly installed archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, who admitted to having agreed to collaborate with the Polish secret police after initially denying any such involvement, has brought into the full glare of international attention a debate that has roiled the Catholic Church in Poland for two years: how should the church respond to the secret police files that are now housed in Poland’s Institute of National Memory (IPN, in the Polish acronym)? Under Polish law, those files are available to both victims of communist-era persecution and legitimate historical researchers; historians had previously learned, and written, that several prominent Polish priests had collaborated, in different ways, with Poland’s communist authorities. The Wielgus affair, which exploded over a period of two brief weeks, is the first time allegations of collaboration have touched a man who subsequently became a member of the Polish hierarchy.
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Stepping Down: Stanislaw Wielgus, newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw, attending Mass. Wielgus resigned Jan. 7.
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What would be ideally needed ia a complete publication of these archives - with the full names of the informers, and the rest of it. For example, I know several people who used to inform KGB on me, but I bet my list is incomplete.
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