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Polish Researchers Clarify, Defend Cardinal Karol Wojtyła’s Record on Clerical Abuse, by Filip Mazurczak – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Polish Researchers Clarify, Defend Cardinal Karol Wojtyła’s Record on Clerical Abuse, by Filip Mazurczak

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Pope John Paul II. Source & Licensing: The image was uploaded to Flickr by Levan Ramishvili in 2021 and is frequently released into the Public Domain or via Creative Commons licenses, allowing for widespread use.

By Filip Mazurczak, Catholic World Report, May 6, 2026

Filip Mazurczak is a historian, translator, and journalist. His writing has appeared in First Things, the St. Austin Review, the European Conservative, the National Catholic Register, and many others. He teaches at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow.

“Compared to most other bishops in communist Poland and likely much of the world at the time, Wojtyła’s response to sexual abuse was exemplary,” says journalist and canon lawyer Tomasz Krzyżak.

Over the years, recurring accusations have been made in the media in Poland and elsewhere that Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, had covered up cases of clerical sexual abuse and had even transferred accused priests from parish to parish.

But Tomasz Krzyżak, an expert in canon law and journalist who has conducted research in Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance and the newly opened archives of the Archdiocese of Kraków, disagrees with those claims. He says that the future Pope St. John Paul II, “dealt with sexual abuse seriously, applied the provisions of canon law, and never covered anything up.” …

Polish Researchers Clarify, Defend Cardinal Karol Wojtyła’s Record on Clerical Abuse, by Filip Mazurczak

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“Compared to most other bishops in communist Poland and likely much of the world at the time, Wojtyła’s response to sexual abuse was exemplary,” says journalist and canon lawyer Tomasz Krzyżak.

Over the years, recurring accusations have been made in the media in Poland and elsewhere that Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, had covered up cases of clerical sexual abuse and had even transferred accused priests from parish to parish.

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