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Spokesman of the Episcopate: Every fifth diocesan priest in Poland murdered during World War II
Every fifth diocesan priest was murdered in Poland occupied by the Germans and Russians. Four Polish bishops were killed in the concentration camps, and nearly half of the Roman Catholic dioceses were deprived of diocesan bishops. It was also a war with religion – said the spokesman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik, on the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
The Week in Summary (October 27 – November 2)
The week began with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of episcopal ordination of Monsignor Achille Ratti. He was the first papal nuncio to independent Poland and then Pope Pius XI. The solemn Eucharist in St. John’s Archcathedral in Warsaw was presided by Archbishop Mario Delpini, metropolitan of Milan. Monsignor Ratti became also Metropolitan of Milan after three years spent in Warsaw.
Letter of Fraternal Concern from the Episcopate’s President regarding the German “Synodal Path”
Bearing in mind this communion of faith and history between Poland and Germany, I would like to express my deep concern and anxiety with regard to the information that has been recently received from some spheres of the Catholic Church in Germany - wrote the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, in a letter addressed to the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, regarding the German “synodal path”.
