Marcin Bogdan:Where are the Polish bishops?

The fresh light on the case casts a message by prof. Waldemar Chrostowski on the waves of Wnet radio. Priest prof. said what follows: ‘The letter is dated 12 March this year. However, in a communication from the Episcopal Conference, from the 404th which took place in Warsaw, as far as I know, there was no mention of this letter, so there was no mention that this letter was being discussed, or that it would be published.”. This would mean that the Letter does not represent the views of the full Episcopate, but only Cardinal Gregory Rys and his acolytes. This, on the 1 hand, is good news, and on the another hand it shows even more drama of the situation than it originally seemed. If indeed Cardinal Ryś, without the consent and acceptance of another bishops, attributed the authorship of the Letter “Pasters of the Catholic Church in Poland, present at the 404th Plenary gathering of the Episcopal Conference”, then there was an different usurpation.

The situation is dramatic. How should bishops behave erstwhile they are a superior cardinal, not only proclaims the thesis contrary to the teaching of the Church, but inactive shamefully tries to attribute the authorship of the Letter to all the Shepherds present at the Plenary Assembly? Should we keep quiet in specified a situation? Should you be quiet? Can we keep quiet? Is silence allowed? This is not a question of the sin of a associate of the Church, people are sinful, cardinal can besides sin. But in this situation, the Church was on the verge of a break, on the verge of schism. Is silence allowed? erstwhile Henry VIII broke up with the Catholic Church and declared himself head of the Church in England, fewer had the courage to protest. This was done by the secular Chancellor Thomas More of England, and only 1 of the bishops, Bishop John Fisher. Then, in those days, they paid a advanced price for their opposition. Both, on the basis of Henry VIII of the Act on Supremacy, were charged with treason and sentenced to death penalty.

The consequences of these events proceed to this day. It's easier to break up than to unite later. Today, clear and loud opposition does not require as heroic acts as then, in Henry VIII's time. present you don't gotta put your life on the line. But present in the Polish Church only the voice of the faithful, the voice of the secular. The voice of pain, the voice of concern and the voice of outrage. There's no voice from the bishops. The question is, where are the Polish bishops? The words of the Gospel of Matthew are addressed to all, and to the secular and to the hierarchs: «Let your speech be: Yes, yes; no, no. And what is more, is from the Evil One» Matthew [5.37].

This clear voice of bishops was missing a fewer years ago. erstwhile Grzegorz Ryś was inactive Archbishop, he desecrated the Holy Mass. At the time, during a gathering with the youth named Arena, the young “Reset” announced to the audience at the stadium: “I know you are a small surprised, no 1 knew he was at Mass”. Although the president of the Committee on God's Culture and Discipline of the Sacraments of the Polish Episcopal Bishop Peter Greger made a message on the matter, it did not produce the desired effect. Grzegorz Ryś apologized to those who "They felt offended or even worried about the form of the Eucharist". As then and now, not the wicked must be apologized, but the Almighty God himself, for insulting His Majesty.

It's time to get down on your knees and sing the Sufferance, it's time to expiate and make amends to God for the confusion and mischief caused in His Church. Will Polish bishops call for a propitiatory prayer?

Mr Bogdan