Marcin Bogdan: Schism in the Polish Church. mistake 404

The date and time of publication of the Letter is not accidental. The Hierarchs imposed an embargo on the prior disclosure of the contents of this letter. Yes, it's shocking, but there was an embargo in the Church on apostolic teaching. On the website of the Archdiocese of Wrocław there was a message:‘The paper shall be covered by the embargo until 21 March of the current year, until 18:00. Therefore, it is requested not to print it or to make it available to 3rd parties until the prescribed time.’. The embargo is erstwhile “Someone is trying to hide the uncomfortable information for a circumstantial moment.It’s okay. ” It was this message "Error 404" that appeared on the Curia website, which initially broke the embargo by publishing the Letter before the deadline, and then withdrew it.

The letter contains statements not as uncomfortable as scandalous and shocking. individual tried to hide them until 18 p.m. on Saturday, 21 March, erstwhile the Holy Mass is already celebrated in Polish churches according to the Sunday liturgy. Thus, until the letter had already reached pulpit in all churches across Poland and there was no way to prevent it from being read.

If in any church, even due to the Lenten retreat, The letter will not be read, then anyone will be able to read it online anyway. I'll draw attention to any key passages. Shepherds present at the gathering say: “We must admit that our responsibility in this case is greater than the Jews. For they, according to the Apostle's testimony, would not crucify the Lord of glory (1 Cor 2:8) if they knew him.". It's hard to bid on whose responsibility is bigger. Christ died on the Cross for all men, for the redemption of our sins. But is it not the responsibility of the Jews that they did not know the Lord, even though he lived among them and taught among them? And we must build our cognition of the Lord on the grace of faith, not on a individual encounter with Christ, God and man.

The Shepherds further state that “For over 1 and a half 1000 years these contents, present in the Catholic teaching and misinterpretation of the Scriptures, shaped the attitudes of Christians, contributing to hatred, persecution and manifestation of anti-Semitism." With this statement, the authors of the letter excluded from the Church. Saint Thomas of Aquinas, Saint Francis of Padua, Saint Francis of Saleza, and many another doctors and saints of the Catholic Church, all of them mistakenly intepret the Scriptures? They shaped the attitudes of Christians, contributing to hatred and persecution? And it was only the appropriate explanation of the Bible that the Catholic Church in Poland was signed under the Letter of Shepherd? It's a declaration of obedience to the Holy See. If Polish Shepherds come to specified conclusions, they should agree their position with the Holy See and not announce it on behalf of the full Polish Church to the faithful.

The shepherds proceed in the letter “For God, faithful to his promises, did not cancel the First Covenant. Israel remains a chosen nation". In a letter addressed to Cardinal Grzegorz Rys, whose content should be known to the Cardinal, Fr Waldemar Rakocy explains that «The Scriptures do not know the word "chosen people" commonly utilized in Polish (but not in abroad languages: e.g. the Chosen people, le people élu, il popole eletto, etc.); The Scriptures only know the concept of chosen people. [...] The Second Vatican Council (Nostra Aetate, paragraph 4) uses the word “elected people” and not “nation” for Jews; the nation may be Israeli but not elected. The word “chosen nation” is theologically incorrect due to the fact that it has cultural connotation, limiting ethnically access to God’s grace, which is contrary to the economics of salvation».

Moreover, these chosen people, according to the fresh Testament, are not Jews but believers in Christ, as we read in the First Epistle of Saint Peter: “But you are a chosen tribe, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people [God] destined for you to proclaim the works of the might of him who called you out of darkness into his unusual light, you who were non-people, and now you are a people of God, who have not received mercy, and now as those who have received mercy have received mercy.It’s okay. ” As prof. Rakocy writes in a letter to Cardinal Rysia: «Maintaining that the covenant on Sinai is inactive valid is the creation of a parallel saving reality: 1 with Christ and the another without Him. This is an act against God’s saving plan». The claim that ‘Israel remains a chosen nation’ is so pure heresy.

In conclusion, the Shepherds of the Polish Church propose: "Let us visit the synagogue on 13 April. Let us remember men and women whose prayers have been soaking walls of idols for centuries.” The question is, will it be possible to celebrate the Eucharist in the synagogues on Sunday 13 April? Did the Church Shepherds agree with the rabbis? Catholics gather on Sunday at Holy Masses, during which they remember in prayer those whose prayer and blood soaked Polish walls and Polish earth. They mention the Ulmow household murdered on 24 March 1944 by the Germans for hiding Jews. Just 2 days after Sunday, March 22 marks the anniversary of their death, about which the Shepherd of the Church is tracking down “Love deficits” in the form of anti-Semitism, seemingly they forgot. possibly it would be better on Sunday, March 22nd, alternatively of visiting synagogues, to invitation Jews to our churches. Father prof. Rakocy in a letter to Cardinal Rysia recalls that «The Jews are constantly invited to accept Christ, for "the gifts of grace and the call of God are irrevocable" (v. 29). God’s call is constant and so God keeps calling them to enter the way of Christ.»

These are only fragments of this shocking letter, which was edited on 12 March 2026 and is to be read on 22 March. This is an highly short time for specified an crucial document, which should be consulted with scholars and theologians. We have the right to anticipate that the Holy See will take a stand on this matter, as Catholics feel that there has been schism in the Polish Church. Until he explains the compliance of the Letter with the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church, all Shepherds who have contributed to its establishment and publicisation, including Cardinals Grzegorz Ryś and Konrad Krajewski, should make themselves available to Pope Leon XIV, that is to say, to express their willingness to resign from the positions, if the Pope considers it essential for the sake of the Church.

Mr Bogdan

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