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The book by the Polish priest on Catholic clerical collaboration with the Polish Communist regime, that is. John Allen:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Zalewski identifies thirty other clerics as onetime informants, among them four bishops. Yet he also names a number of prominent Polish clergymen who he says spurned Communist overtures, including Cardinals Franciszek Macharski, formerly of Cracow, and Andrzej Deskur, a longtime Vatican official.<\/p>\n

Zalewski has long been among the leaders of a drive to expose clergy who supplied information to authorities. The church, he says, must confess and repent. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe church\u2019s avoiding of the problem could lead to irreversible harm,\u201d he wrote in an introduction. \u201cAbove all, it will cast a shadow on those clergy (and they were the vast majority) who never cooperated with the secret police.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost priests,\u201d Zalewski writes, \u201cexited the Communist era with their heads held high.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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