US EditionPoland Primate Leaves Independent Abuse Commission Project
- Archbishop Wojciech Polak will no longer oversee the creation of an independent commission to examine abuse cases in the Church, as announced by the Polish bishops on June 10-12, 2025.
- Bishop Sławomir Oder will manage the project, having been elected chairman during the bishops' plenary assembly.
- Advocates for abuse survivors expressed disappointment over Polak's removal, questioning the Polish bishops' commitment to establishing a truly independent commission amid accusations of delays and lack of transparency.
- Bishop Oder stated that the commission's draft principles are a starting point, but no timeline for its establishment has been provided.
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Survivor Jakub Pankowiak said the Polish bishops did not want to set up a fully independent commission to investigate past clergy sex abuse cases.
Poland primate leaves independent abuse commission project
Archbishop Wojciech Polak, the Polish bishops’ point man on abuse, will no longer oversee the creation of an independent commission examining the Church’s handling of abuse cases.Archbishop Wojciech Polak, the delegate of the child protection office of the Polish bishops’ conference, pictured in 2009. Enstropia/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0.In a statement issued at the end of their June 10-12 plenary meeting in Katowice, the Polish bishops said the pro…
The Polish bishops, writing the message to the German bishops "We forgive and ask for forgiveness", showed extraordinary courage, a broad perspective and showed what Christianity is really about. This is what Europe's return to its Christian roots should really be about. The article Joanna LUBECKA: Wrocław reconciliation. A gesture we can be proud of comes from the website Wszystko co końca.
The Polish Episcopal Conference is an institution that cannot be counted on and that does not count. Each subsequent statement on this subject by the spokesman of the Polish Episcopal Conference only confirms my opinion.
Archbishop Wojciech Polak will no longer be responsible for establishing a commission on paedophilia in the Church - the Polish Episcopal Conference informed. "This is how hope dies. I had it somewhere in the back of my mind, I was counting on the fact that change was possible. Today it has been buried" - commented Tomasz Terlikowski.
There will be no Commission. The Legal Council won the dispute over investigating pedophilia in the Church - RMF24.pl - The Primate of Poland, Archbishop Wojciech Polak, was dismissed from the position responsible for establishing the Commission investigating crimes against minors in the Church. In his
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