According to a journalistic investigation performed by means of the Polish tv channel TVN, Pope John Paul II used to be conscious about allegations of paedophilia in opposition to individuals of the Catholic Church and attempted to hide them up by means of moving clergymen to different dioceses.
The station says those occasions happened all the way through Pope John Paul II’s time in Krakow, Poland, ahead of he used to be named head of the Catholic Church and referred to as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla.
In the process the investigation, journalists met with sufferers of paedophile clergymen, their family and previous workers of the diocese. They additionally cited paperwork from the previous communist secret police SB and uncommon Church paperwork to which that they had get admission to.
The Krakow diocese and the Polish Church have refused get admission to to their archives, in step with the reporters.
One of the clergymen used to be despatched to Austria by means of the longer term pope, who then wrote a letter of advice to a cardinal in Vienna, with out informing him of the previous accusations in opposition to the priest.
Wishing to stay nameless, one witness showed that he had in my view reported a clergyman’s paedophile acts to Cardinal Wojtyla in 1973.
“Wojtyla first wanted to make sure that it was not a bluff. He asked not to report it anywhere, he said he would take care of it,” the person stated, including that the cardinal had explicitly requested him if the case may well be saved quiet.
‘Maxima Culpa: John Paul II knew’
A e-book containing equivalent accusations in opposition to Karol Wojtyla is because of be printed in Poland on Wednesday, entitled ‘Maxima Culpa: John Paul II knew‘.
Quite a few instances of paedophilia a number of the clergy, printed basically by means of the media, have shaken the Polish Church in recent times with a number of high-ranking officers being sanctioned by means of the Vatican.
