POLAND
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A progressive priest who was dismissed from his parish last week caused “great harm” to the Church, according to a statement released by the curia.
“Father Wojciech Lemanski, who became a voluntary hostage of the media, caused great harm to the Church, and created grave confusion and anxiety in society,” the curia of the Warsaw-Praga diocese claimed, as cited by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
“He always claimed to know better, without showing necessary restraint or a sense of proportion. Applying the principle ‘pars pro toto’, he portrayed the Church as a community of rapists, paedophiles, hypocrites, extortionists and drunkards.”
Archbishop of the Warsaw-Praga diocese Henryk Hoser issued a decree on 5 July that Father Lemanski would no longer be vicar of his parish at Jasienica, east of Warsaw, as of 9 pm on 14 July.
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