Catholic News Service
10/5/11
A Catholic journal has criticized the Polish church’s handling of sexual abuse by priests, following repeated claims that local church leaders failed to confront the problem.
the Wiez bimonthly questioned whether the Polish church’s handling of abuse claims complied with Vatican instructions and whether the good of the church meant “the good name of clergy or the good of the weakest.”
Archbishop Andrzej Dziega of Szczecin-Kamien said he believed Poland’s Catholic bishops had their own “competence and experience” on sexual molestation and would not need a commission -- like that established by the church in neighboring Germany -- to examine abuse cases.
Leading Catholics have urged the church to adopt clear procedures for handling various abuse claims since the 2002 resignation of the Archbishop Juliusz Paetz of Poznan for molesting seminarians.
Other cases have involved allowing convicted abusers to remain in their parishes.
Does anyone notice a pattern here, like say in Germany, Austria, Ireland, America, etc,etc ?
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