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Church in the WorldDziwisz sets up spy commissionEurope 4 March 2006Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow has set up a commission to investigate collaboration between members of the Church and Communist-era officials. The move follows calls by a senior priest for clergy who spied on the Pope for the secret police of the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB) to be exposed. ?What we?ve seen recently isn?t just the tossing around of files, but the dangerous tossing around of people too,? explained Fr Robert Neczek, the spokesman for the archdiocese. ?These files record not just SB co-operation, but also the heroism of many people. Even if sad truths come to light, we can?t leave the people affected without care.? The announcement followed a highly publicised resignation threat by Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, a former Solidarity chaplain who told Poland?s Catholic information agency (KAI) he had seen the names of clergy-agents while reading his own SB file. The chaplain said he believed John Paul II?s beatification process could be compromised by church attempts to ?sweep the issue under the carpet?.
Around 10 per cent of Polish priests are believed to have acted as communist informers; higher recruitment rates were recorded in some dioceses in the 1980s. |
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