Reds: The Vatican Edition

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Cross Posted at my place at-Largely

First we have a Pope elected who ran with the Nazi SS and now we have another Archbishop who was an informant for the KGB. What's next? Skinheads getting together to preach moral values? Oh wait... never mind:

"Stanislaw Wojciech Wielgus, the newly appointed archbishop of Warsaw who has been caught in Eastern Europe's widening witch hunt for former Communist secret police informers, admitted Friday that he had collaborated with the Polish Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, or Security Service, known as SB.

"Before you today, I confess to the mistake committed by me years ago, just as I have confessed to the Holy Father," Wielgus said in an open letter to Polish Catholics. "By the fact of this entanglement I have damaged the church."

He said he compounded that damage by denying "facts of this cooperation" in recent days."

My father's family was killed in Warsaw, so I take this all a bit personally.

"Wielgus insisted, however, that he had neither spied on nor harmed anyone with his activities. He said it was up to Pope Benedict XVI to decide whether he would keep his new job. He is to be officially recognized as the archbishop during a ceremony at St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw on Sunday, though many voices in Poland have called for him to step down.

The Warsaw archbishopric is a particularly symbolic institution in the former Soviet bloc because the Polish church and the Polish-born Pope John Paul II were crucial supporters of the pro-democracy Solidarity movement that helped bring down the totalitarian system and end the of the Cold War.

Confirmation that Wielgus had collaborated is particularly troubling because the Polish secret police murdered a charismatic, anti-communist priest from the archdiocese, Jerzy Popieluszko, in 1984. The outgoing archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, was a tireless crusader against the Communist Party in those years."

But I am never surprised at the antics of the Vatican and their leaders. Not since it was made public that they helped smuggle Nazis out of Europe have I been surprised at anything this circus does. Does that make me anti-Catholic? No. I am simply of the belief that a corrupt and bloated organization which has done more harm than good could adequately serve the needs of its faithful.

I wonder if the Vatican still launders money for arms dealers and the mafia?

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1. The Vatican supports organizations

that are anti-democratic around the World. They need to get their nose out of politics and tend to the needs of the faithful.
If they want freedom to worship and maintain their tax-free status, they need to stop meddling in the affairs of others.