VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The fallout from the resignation of Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus continued, with revelations about his role as an informant for former secret police, warnings about new disclosures to come and the resignation of a leading churchman in Krakow, Poland. Pope Benedict XVI accepted Archbishop Wielgus' resignation Jan. 7, just two days after he became archbishop of Warsaw.The following day, Father Janusz Bielanski resigned as rector of Krakow's Wawel Cathedral, the burial place of Poland's kings and queens and a landmark of church history. Father Bielanski also had been accused of cooperation with communist-era secret police.
Meanwhile, a former aide to Pope John Paul II, Polish Father Adam Boniecki, said whoever had "disinformed" Pope Benedict about Archbishop Wielgus should suffer consequences. In December, the Vatican press office said Pope Benedict had shown "full confidence" in the new Warsaw archbishop, after Vatican officials took "account of all his life circumstances, including those connected with his past."