Krakow, Mar. 8, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Poland’s Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, the author of a blockbuster book about Church leaders’ interaction with the Communist secret police, has confirmed published reports that the pseudonym “Henryk” used in his new book does refer to Archbishop Jozef Nowacki, the apostolic nuncio in Slovakia (pic'd here -->) and friend of Krakow’s Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz.According to documents from the Institute of National Remembrance, Archbishop Nowacki agreed to collaborate with the former secret service in 1977.
Cardinal Dziwisz has been outspoken in his defense of Archbishop Nowacki. Earlier this week he charged: “To attack this man is to attack all Poles who worked with John Paul II, and therefore it is to attack the Servant of God John Paul II himself.”
In related news, more than 500 priests of the Diocese of Rzeszow have signed an open letter to Father Zaleski after his book identified their ordinary, Bishop Kazimierz Gorny as a Communist collaborator.
The priests’ letter called the accusation hurtful and demanded an apology from the Polish priest-author.
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