Over 1,000 priests of the Tarnow diocese in Poland have joined in a letter of support for their bishop, who has been accused of collaborating with the secret police of the Communist regime.Bishop Wiktor Skworc of Tarnow (pic'd here) was identified as a collaborator in the book recently published by Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, a former chaplain of the Solidarity movement.
But his defenders say that the bishop was registered as an informant without his knowledge or consent, and that he did not collaborate with the secret police.
A group of 1,107 priests-- more than 80% of the number of priests active in the diocese-- have signed the letter defending Bishop Skworc.
Their letter was addressed to Krakow’s Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the metropolitan of the region in which Tarnow is located; and to Archbishop Jozef Michalik and Bishop Piotr Liber, the president and secretary, respectively, of the Polish bishops’ conference.
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