John Paul II knew about the abuses since the cardinal: Investigation
- March 6, 2023
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The book “Maximum Guilt. John Paul II knew it,” written by journalist Ekke Overbeck, to be published in Poland on March 8, shows that John Paul II, who
The book “Maximum Guilt. John Paul II knew it,” written by journalist Ekke Overbeck, to be published in Poland on March 8, shows that John Paul II, who died in 2005 and was canonized in 2014, was aware of the abuse of minors in the Polish Catholic Church. for many years before becoming pontiff, and who covered them.
His fellow journalist Michal Gutowski, who conducted investigation on the same topic on the air of the TVN channel, collected documents that, in his opinion, prove that Karol Wojtyla “he knew and concealed cases of pedophile priests in the church when he was still cardinal in krakow“.
According to the investigation, the then cardinal had to priests transferred to other dioceses even from other countries such as Austria, to make sure that there was no scandal.
It also turns out that Wojtyła, who was Dad For 27 years, from 1978 until his death in 2005, he wrote a letter of recommendation to Cardinal Franz König of Vienna, supporting a priest who was accused of abusenot to mention the accusations.
Gutovsky collected evidence victims of pedophile prieststheir families and former employees of the Krakow diocese.
In support of his investigation, he cited documents from the former communist-era secret police and rare church documents to which he had access. However, he stated that the Krakow diocese denied him access to its own documentary archive.
Translation of research into Poland Traditionally, the Catholic appears shortly after the Dutch journalist Ecke Overbeck made similar accusations. His book will go on sale in Poland this week.
Over the past two years, amid several reports of child abuse in the Polish church, the Vatican has sanctioned several senior church figures for covering up pedophilia by the clergy.
However, the one who was the personal secretary of St. John Paul II For 40 years, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz has been exonerated by the Vatican on allegations of abuse of office in sexual assault in a report published in April 2022, as the Holy See determined that he acted correctly in the cases harassment attributed to the priests of his diocese during his ministry there, from 2005 to 2016.
The verdict, made public in a brief statement by the Apostolic Nunciature in Poland, came after an analysis of documentation drawn up last June by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco of Bologna.
“Analysis of the collected documents allowed us to evaluate the actions of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz as correct, and therefore Apostolic See decided not to proceed, according to a notice from the Polish nunciature, in which the case was declared closed.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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