Millions for Father Rydzyk. “This is the tip of the iceberg”

Member of the civilian Coalition Jarosław Wałęsa in December 2023 revealed that during the regulation of Law and Justice organisations related to Father Tadeusz Rydzyk were to receive over PLN 380 million. As he has now acknowledged in his conversation with “Rzeczpospolita”, it is inactive unclear what was yet the amount of the grant.

‘This is the tip of the iceberg.. Counting continues and I fishy it will take a long time," says Jarosław Wałęsa. Tadeusz Rydzyk's activities were generously supported by government agencies, state-owned companies and ministries during the PiS rule.

The Group of Members of the Civic Coalition requested a detailed list of contracts, invoices and funds transferred by the ministries to 5 entities related to the activities of Father Tadeusz Rydzyk during the PiS rule. The Lux Veritatis Foundation, the Bonus Company, the Foundation and the Company of the same name Our Future, and the Academy of Social and Media Culture in Toruń, whose founder and rector is Father Tadeusz Rydzyk.

‘The scale of spending, their amount and momentum clearly show how exceptional the treatment of father Tadeusz Rydzyk during the time of the Law and Justice Office. No organisation in past has received specified funds from state institutions” “Rzeczpospolita” said MP KO Iwona Karolewska.

As he notes, grants were allocated “practically for everything” for tv spots, construction investments and school trips.

Black clouds over father Rydzyk's empire

The largest part, close to 220 million PLN, is state money for the construction of the Museum of Memory and Identity.them. St. John Paul II. The money went to the Lux Veritatis Foundation in 2018 by decision of then Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński.

When the PiS lost power, a stream of grants to build the museum was stopped, and The prosecution and the CBA have initiated an investigation into the case.