Friday, January 19, 2007
THE CHURCH IN POLAND
may have more secrets to reveal than we have so far heard according to Sandro Magister at Chiesa:
He was the new archbishop of Warsaw, and Benedict XVI had supported him almost until the last moment. But then he ordered him to resign. There are many who have disappointed the pope – and some even in the Vatican.
ROMA, January 11, 2007 – The “rezygnacja,” the tearful resignation that Stanislaw Wielgus announced on Sunday, January 7 in the cathedral of Warsaw where he was supposed to be installed as the new archbishop, did not put an end to the storm that is shaking the Catholic Church in Poland and Rome, all the way to its supreme pastor.
Last May 25, on the first day of his trip to Poland, Benedict XVI entered that very same cathedral.
He knelt before the tomb of the heroic cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, pointing him out as a model for all.
And among the things he asked of the bishops, priests, and faithful of Poland were:
– “humble sincerity” in admitting the errors of the past;
– magnanimity in judging the faults committed “in other times and other circumstances”;
– pride for all the many good achievements of those years, in resisting a form of totalitarianism that “generated hypocrisy.’
But none of these requests was respected during the tumultuous weeks between the appointment of Wielgus and his resignation.
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The external enemy is playing a role in the current “wave of attacks against the Catholic Church in Poland,” as Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi lamented on January 7: that enemy that works as a “a strange alliance between those who once persecuted the Church there and its other adversaries.”
But there are also enmities within the Church that are contributing to the carnage.
I have no opinions on this except that we have probably only begun to hear what potentially may come out of Poland unless it's put under wraps. Magister believes it has already touched the Pope, and that leads to the question, how did it touch the last Pope?
The following quote from the article brought me to a dead stop:
There are other clouds of suspicion surrounding the intellectuals of “Tygodnik Powszechny,” the historical Krakow weekly paper for which Karol Wojtyla wrote. Last spring one of its most illustrious authors, Fr. Michal Czajkowski, who heads the commission for Christian-Jewish dialogue, was accused of having spied on none other than the martyred priest Jerzy Popieluszko, before the secret police abducted and killed Popieluszko in 1984.
Not long ago I found and blogged the connection between the Communists, Pax Christi, and the Polish Catholic press which I would link if I were using my own computer, but will forego linking since I'm using this one.
Then there is this quote about Wielgus: He is a learned specialist in medieval philosophy... Hmmm. As in Kabbalah? As in Catharism? Questions, questions, questions...and mysteries. More and more mysteries.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
