Fr. prof. Tadeusz Guz won the first run against the judaic Association B’nai B’ritt. Court on the side of the Polish priest

The territory Court for Warsaw-Żoliborz dismissed proceedings against members of the Disciplinary Commission and the disciplinary spokesperson of the Catholic University of Lublin, who did not decide to hold Fr. The clergyman was accused by the judaic Association B’nai B’ritt in the Republic of Poland of “calling against hatred against the background of national and spiritual differences in relation to the judaic people.”

Digression origin of Charge

The case concerns the statements of a Catholic priest, a professor, lecturer of the Catholic University of Lublin, formulated as part of a lecture given in 2018 in the Pilgrim's home Amicus at the Warsaw parish of St Stanislaw Kostka. The indictment, commissioned by the judaic Association of B’nai B’ritt in the Republic of Poland (part of the U.S.-initiated B’nai B’ritt bed network in the 19th century), is simply a subsidiary prosecution, and was so filed after two-time refusal to formulate an indictment by the territory Attorney's Office, sustained by the Chief Prosecutor.

The lecture given by Fr Tadeusz Guz over six years ago was entitled “How God Will Complete the past of Salvation”. The event was held at the invitation of the Loretanek Sisters Publishing House, as part of the promotion of the Polish translation of the autobiography of Roy H. Schoeman, "Salvation Takes the Beginning of Jews", a position definitely Philosemic. The author is an American hebrew of German origin, converted to Catholicism. Prof. Guz's lecture lasted over an hour, at the very end of which was a one-minute speech addressing the question of the alleged " ritual murders", which became the basis for B’nai B’ritt's accusation of "invoking hatred".

The brief digression of Fr Prof. Guz began with the reflection that Roy H. Schoeman was in Poland and was frequently besides in Israel and Yad Vashem. The lecturer pointed out that Schoeman "did not mention the large heroism and large sacrifice of the Polish people in the question of saving Jews from this fire of racist socialism of the 3rd German Reich". Then, Fr Prof. Guz noted that in his book Schoeman exhibited in an highly interesting way the face of arabian anti-Semitism. In doing so, according to Fr Prof. Guz, he “relativizes” the question of ritual murders. "Maybe specified events have never happened in the Muslim world," said the Catholic theologian, but in Europe, "these facts, specified as ritual murders, cannot be erased from history," due to the fact that Polish archives preserved "final sentences after ritual murders. "The author most likely does not know our state documents," Fr Guz further pointed out, "but it is worth mentioning it to him too."

Lecture without anti-Semitism

The lecture by Fr. prof. Tadeusz Guz can be viewed entirely on YouTube and is hard to find the anti-Semitic sound – on the contrary. It must be admitted, of course, that the fact that the court of the First Republic has given a final judgement is not evidence of the facts indicated in it. Both due to the nature of the trial and due to the flawed – from today's position – the evidence of the criminal trial in the 17th or 18th centuries. However, this message was of a digression nature, an apparent thought abbreviation, and above all, it surely did not call for hatred against the followers of Judaism. On the contrary, the full lecture was respectful of the importance of Jews and Judaism to Christianity and the past of salvation.

First of all, prof. Tadeusz Guz, during the technological lecture, touched on the substance of ritual crimes only due to the fact that they were the subject of the book he promoted. Philosopher's books. In addition, the subject of ritual crimes during his lecture was dealt with intentionally in a hands-on manner, aware that the case is sensitive, requires in-depth historical analysis and descriptions and broader context, and thus a different space and forum than was the case during the book's promotion.

For the crime accused, Fr Tadeusz Guz is required to show that his intent was to influence the psyche of 3rd parties and not to express even the most ferocious view of any subject (which was besides not the intent of the defendant, who simply led the lecture on the book, whose promotion was the intent of the organized gathering at the Pilgrim's House).

The analysis of the content of the defendant's lecture on specified conclusions must not lead in any way. The adversarial prosecutor cites one, a fewer - time speech from a lecture that lasted almost 3 hours, which did not concern ritual murders at all. The defendant's three-hour speech was divided into 3 parts – welcome, poetic part, and questions to the lead. The gathering began prayer in the intention of blessing the judaic people. The subject of the lecture was the presentation of selected fragments of the promoted book and their discussion. Taking into account the context of all the statements and accompanying circumstances and the fact that the interest in criminal law remains only those acts which are committed out of hate. Knowing the full recording clearly shows that in the message of the accused there is no mention to hatred against Jews and the judaic people, there is no mention to insulting Jews and the judaic people, and on the contrary – the accused prayed with the Jews gathered for the intent of the judaic people, asked the audience not to justice negatively the judaic people by the prism of individuals, set the judaic people as a model in the field of education of their citizens, and appealed for the surroundings with the love of all hebrew and Jew. An examination of the full respective hours of the defendant's statement, not just the quoted few-time passage, indicates that no phrases bearing the signs of crime were revealed during the recording.

B’nai B’rith accuses

Nevertheless, co-chairs of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews – Stanisław Krajewski and Zbigniew Nosowski, demanded the Catholic University of Lublin to punish Fr. The University of Lublin opened an investigation and, after examining the case, the disciplinary committee stated in October 2020 that there was no breach of the rules of the academic teachers. This decision was most likely based on listening to the full lecture, not on a short passage of it taken out of context, but on extended explanations of Fr. Prof. Guz, who emphasized his technological achievements in the defence of the dignity of Jews (including against attacks of Protestant theology), expressed his full readiness for a factual polemic with critics, and besides mentioned authors of technological works who investigated the past of alleged ritual murders.

– During the event promoting Roy H. Schoeman's book, which addresses the issue, was I expected to pretend that I had no cognition of these historical studies? Does not the search, proclamation and defence of fact belong to the essence of the ethos of the academic teacher KUL, who besides enjoys legal guarantees from our state regarding his freedom to conduct investigation and to preach their results in accordance with the fact known? The theologian asked further in his message to the Polish Council of Christians and Jews.

On 26 March 2024, we learn that B’nai B’rith present accuses Fr. Prof. Guz of allegedly "publishing publically the hatred of national and spiritual differences in relation to the judaic people, disseminating false information that Jews commit ritual murders and publically insulting the judaic people due to national and spiritual affiliation."

Members of the Disciplinary Commission

But that's not all. What is even more surprising, the Polish lodge B’nai B’rith besides accuses each associate of the Disciplinary Commission of the Lublin University of Lublin of the fact that "acting within the Disciplinary Commission on Workers of the Catholic University of Lublin has issued a decision to keep the order of 8 October 2020, which expires the investigation into the statements of the lecturer of KUL Fr. It is worth noting that the prosecutor's three-time analysis of the case besides led to conclusions about the deficiency of grounds for the indictment.

On 25 November the first gathering was held on the issue of the dismissal of proceedings against academic teachers, where the typical of the judaic Association and the defender of Fr.

Academic lecturers were not present at the meeting, but had previously submitted applications for dismissal due to the deficiency of fulfilment of the forbidden performance, and in defence was assisted by the selfless lawyer of the Ordo Iuris Institute, who attended the gathering as a defender of Fr.

The territory Court for Warsaw-Żoliborz in Warsaw agreed with the argument presented by the defendants and the defender of Fr. prof. Tadeusz Guz, that clearly the evidence collected in the preparatory proceedings shows that the accused act does not contain the signs of a prohibited act. As a result, the court dismissed the proceedings initiated against academic lecturers.

Discharge

The position of the another accused – academic teachers (who are besides unjustly seeking to commit criminal offences) should be accepted and full accepted, that, since the double examination of the evidence collected in the present case in the preparatory proceedings did not lead the prosecutor to present the charges to the accused, due to the deficiency of evidence of their actions, the evidence proceedings before the court would most likely be limited to a duplication of evidence. This leads to the conclusion that in the circumstances of this case, the procedure should apply to destruct the request to proceed at the hearing.

Accepting by the prosecutor that the judgments given in respect of disciplinary proceedings constitute acts which are commendable to the crime is over-interpretation. The disciplinary authorities shall act within the scope of their powers and powers, and neither the decision to discontinue the investigation procedure nor the decision to keep that provision may be assessed in the context of the exhaustion of the nature of the offence as an acknowledgment of its commission.

The explanation of the prosecutor and his view on this issue would lead to the fact that any decision of a disciplinary authority contrary to the the thesis of the notifier could be considered to approve the crime.

The order is invalid. After its finalization, the court will deal with the application for dismissal of proceedings against Fr. prof. Tadeusz Guz.

Adw. Magdalena Przęka-Leszczyńska – lawyer of the Ordo Iuris Process Intervention Centre