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Polish Bishops Ask Victims of Sexual Abuse for Forgiveness
“We ask God, the victims of abuse, their families and the Church community for forgiveness for all the harm done to children and young people and their relatives” – the Polish Bishops wrote in a statement published on November 19 by the Plenary Assembly of the Polish Bishops’ Conference dedicated to sexual abuse of children and youth by some members of the clergy.
Statement of the Spokesman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference
On 11 March 2026, the Polish Bishops’ Conference established a Commission of Independent Experts to investigate the phenomenon of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church in Poland and granted it public legal personality – reads the statement of the Spokesman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Fr. Leszek Gęsiak, SJ.
The Council of Diocesan Bishops will meet on 25 August
On the eve of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Częstochowa, 25 August, the Council of Diocesan Bishops will meet at Jasna Góra, as it does every year. The bishops will discuss, among other things, the Commission of Independent Experts and the planned restructuring of the media of the Polish Bishops' Conference.
Statement of the Presidium of the Polish Bishops' Conference
"We fully express our solidarity with the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Ielpo, and we regret that at such an important time as Holy Week, Christians are unable to pray in the most significant places of the history of salvation," wrote the members of the Presidium of the Polish Bishops’ Conference in their statement.
