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2nd Polish Cleric Resigns in anti-Communist Church Purge

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The New York Times - Jan 9, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/world/europe/09poland.html

Second Church Official Resigns in Poland

By CRAIG S. SMITH and IAN FISHER

WARSAW, Jan. 8 ? The Roman Catholic Church in Poland was in turmoil on
Monday as a second prelate stepped down because of his Communist-era secret
police ties, after Sunday?s resignation of this city?s archbishop over
similar allegations.

Questions spread about just how broad and deep a stain secret-police
collaboration has left on a church long regarded as a beacon of faith and
freedom during the Communist era. Many people also have asked how or why the
Vatican could have invited the storm by appointing a man to such a sensitive
post despite knowing that he had a clouded past.