Two committees will be established in the diocese of Sosnowiecie to explain scandals involving clergymen; 1 of them will be directed by the prosecutor at rest, including a lawyer, historian and psychologist. An audit will besides be carried out.
On Wednesday, the manager of the press office of the diocese of Sosnowiec, Fr Przemysław Lech, informed that he was the chair of the first peculiar commission to analyse events in the diocese of Sosnowiec, which late touched the public, bishop.
Chairman of the second commission to carry out an audit of the diocese of Sosnowiec, Bishop crucial appointed an auditor and specialist in management, digitisation and optimization of the business processes of Witold Sadecki.
The Communication besides stated that the full membership of the committees and the planned scope of their activities would be set by the end of the holiday. There will be a canonist lawyer, a archival historian, including those at the IPN, a scientist or a communication specialist.
When asked about additional proposals to solve the current crisis, Bishop Artur Wiżny pointed out the deepened spiritual formation, secular engagement and the request for intensified pastoral work.
– First of all, the formation of permanent clergymen, which is the best warrant that we priests will care for our human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral form and development. It involves regular meetings in various forms, during which priests will be able to form their spirit... Moreover, it is crucial to be more active in the cooperation of worldly people, who always bring a different, complementary and enriching view of priestly life. They accompany priests in everyday pastoral life, support and motivate them to grow through their rich spirituality and maturity – emphasized the hierarch.
In the diocese of Sosnowiec in fresh years there have been respective moral scandals involving clergymen, which have echoed loudly in the media throughout Poland.
In 2010, then acting as the rector of the Sosnowiec seminary, Fr.Mariusz T. was to get into a conflict at a gay club. After the intervention of the Holy See, the Sosnowiec seminary was dissolved, and the alumni who studied it moved to Częstochowa, where the Higher Seminary of the Sosnowiecian Diocese inactive operates today.
In March 2023 a body of 26-year-old Deacon was found at a Catholic home on Kościelna Street in Sosnowiec. According to the findings of the territory Attorney's Office in Sosnowiec, the deacon was killed by a 40-year-old priest who then committed suicide by throwing himself under the wheel of a train. Another loud case occurred in September 2023, erstwhile an emergency and police intervention took place in the flat of Fr Tomasz Z., located in the parish of St. The event described “Gazeta Wyborcza”, calling it a sexual event.
On 20 March 2024, the services received a call to the flat occupied by the priest from the parish of the Immaculate Conception of the NMP in Sosnowiec. Upon arriving at the scene, the paramedics revived an unconscious young man. The priest in whose flat a man died heard the charge of possession of a psychotropic substance. He didn't plead guilty.
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