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Post by varsovian on Jan 10, 2006 4:59:20 GMT -7
I think many priests are losing it in Poland.
A central figure is a certain Father Rydzik and his Radio Maryja operation (nationalist and xenophobic).
RM is influential and is funded by Jan Kobylanski - a Pole who had to flee to South America after the war and was a big hit with fascist dictators. He also funds Samoobrona (Self Defense), a Polish fascist party.
The aim, as Kobylanski stated in an interview, is to keep Poland pure of evil foreign influences.
My church is a Radio Maryja church and the atmosphere has been anti-foreigner at times. That's a difficult one to explain to your 11 year-old bi-cultural son.
Thoughts anyone?
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Post by nancy on Jan 10, 2006 7:55:26 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Jan 10, 2006 16:58:23 GMT -7
I wonder whether there would be really any serious split in Catholic Church. In the past father Rydzyk was always trying to say that the pope is on his site, and the Catholic Hierarchy was doing the same, now .... there is no pope anymore who could actually make things working better
welcome to the forum,
I presume you are from Warsaw?
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Post by piwo on Jan 10, 2006 18:00:21 GMT -7
The old "anti - foreigners" agenda. Bad enough from politicians, but from the religious, it's worse. Do these people lose sight of God. Are there any foreigners in the sight of God? Perhaps in summer 2008 my "foreigner daughter" will not be welcome to be married in the church of at least 125 years of her ancestors.  |
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Post by varsovian on Jan 11, 2006 2:12:27 GMT -7
The priest officiating at my sister-in-law's wedding publicly rebuked her at the end of the wedding mass for having a professional performer sing, in addition to a couple of Polish hymns, "Amazing Grace" in English ... because foreign hymns have no place in a Polish church.
The young priests are the troublesome ones.
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Post by varsovian on Jan 11, 2006 2:20:57 GMT -7
I couldn't have timed this thread better - the Polish bishops have just gone on the attack against Rydzik, saying that his ventures were all unauthorised and unsupervised by church authorities.
(And yes, I live in the Warsaw area - a short commute into town)
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Post by Jaga on Jan 11, 2006 8:59:38 GMT -7
The priest officiating at my sister-in-law's wedding publicly rebuked her at the end of the wedding mass for having a professional performer sing, in addition to a couple of Polish hymns, "Amazing Grace" in English ... because foreign hymns have no place in a Polish church. The young priests are the troublesome ones. My gosh, this is really an unusual development. It seems that there are two fractions. I did not realize that the younger priests are less tolerant, usually it is the opposite. It seems that the situation is really tense, the articles like that are published in Gazeta Wyborcza: serwisy.gazeta.pl/wyborcza/1,34474,3107953.html Dangerous Liasons between the throne and the altar... by pr. Boniecki |
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