Stanislaw Wielgus, the metropolitan archbishop of Warsaw, resigned today to applause and shouting at a special Mass meant to install him to the post, having confessed he collaborated with the secret service during communist rule in Poland.
Wielgus appeared to fight back tears as he made the announcement in Warsaw Cathedral to shouts of “no'’ and “stay with us.'’ Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation, according to a statement half an hour earlier from the Vatican’s mission in Poland.
The archbishop said yesterday he talked with Poland’s secret police in the communist era out of a lack of “prudence, courage and determination,'’ and because he had wanted to continue his academic studies. He denied being a spy.
I don't have ANY personal animosity to Father Wielgus. If he still feels like he has more to give there are lots of ways he can serve the Church. But, as I said earlier, if any of the charges against him were true he had to step aside.
He didn't do the right thing then, but he is doing the right thing now.
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