“The guilt of my church”, reads the headline on Gazeta Wyborcza’s
frontpage.
It refers to the letter to the Vatican’s nuncio in Poland,
archibishop Celestin Migliore written by father Ludwik Wiśniewski, a
legendary priest in communist times.
In the letter, Wiśniewski laments
the condition of the Polish Catholic Church, stressing that some members
of the episcopate support apparently Catholic initiatives
which in fact are “pogan as they inflame and divide the society and the
Church itself”.
What is more, half of the Polish priests are “infected
with xenophobia, nationalism and coyly hidden antisemitism”.
Father
Wiśniewski also accuses his colleagues of not knowing “how to
communicate with the constantly changing world” and of “blurring the
boundries between the Gospel and politics”.
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