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Vatican City – This time the risk is even contaminating the image of a saint, John Paul II. The president of the Polish Episcopal Conference said that he was in favor of the Holy See establishing an independent commission to clarify the role of Pope John Paul II’s former personal secretary, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, for some time strongly suspected of having hidden, Undercover, he evaded accusations of pedophilia at various levels of the Church. The accusations against him are heavy.
Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki’s statement comes on the day that the Vatican will release the results of a long-awaited internal investigation into the career of former US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was only punished in 2019 after allegations of sexual abuse. The dossier must finally clarify who has helped and protected him in all these years, making him first a bishop, then an archbishop and, finally, a cardinal, going through three pontificates unharmed despite the rumors and complaints against him.
Archbishop Gadecki spoke of the need for a commission of inquiry into Polish TVN24, asking several questions about the attitude of Cardinal Dziwisz, 81, suspected of hiding from the Pope the sexual abuse of priests around the world, including the affairs of McCarrick or the Legion of Christ, as well as pedophile matters in the Polish Church.
According to the author of the report, Polish journalist Marcin Gutowski, the cardinal never had time to meet with him and answer his many questions. According to TVN24, the Vatican report on former Cardinal McCarrick could help to better understand the role played by Dziwisz during the years he spent alongside John Paul II at the Vatican and later as Archbishop of Krakow. It also remains to focus on his role in covering up the rough story of Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, serial abuser, corrupter and never punished by the Church for his links with various friends of the curia.
On Friday, the Vatican announced sanctions against a 97-year-old Polish cardinal, Henryk Gulbinowicz, who was banned from exercising his ministry and wearing the bishop’s symbols following an investigation into alleged sexual abuse.
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