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Journalists should come clean about their past and admit if they had been recruited by communist era secret services, says the new Polish vetting law. This has some journalist react nervously and resort to a boycott. The new vetting, or "lustration" law, that requires journalists to publish statements pertaining to their possible past collaboration with communist era secret services, has met with vehement protests from some journalists, especially those connected with circles traditionally opposed to the process of clearing Poland's painful legacy of the past. A group of journalists, most notably from Poland's liberal and traditionally anti-lustration daily Gazeta Wyborcza...

Following the resignation of archbishop Wielgus and the scandal over his lying about his communist past, the Church, as well as other areas of Polish public life, are in need of finally cutting harmful ties with the country's communist past, say commentators. The scandal over archbishop Wielgus that made headlines the world over seems to result in the acceleration of the process of clearing the Catholic Church in Poland of dangerous ties with the country's communist past. A well-known head of the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, fr. Janusz Bielański, resigned from his post, following a publication in one of the...