RE: Damned Catholics
November 13, 2023 at 1:28 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2023 at 1:30 am by Fake Messiah.)
Catholic charity chief in Poland quits church, calling it “mafia sheltering criminals”
Sebastian Wiśniewski has worked for Caritas in Białystok, one of Poland’s largest cities, since 2007 and became its deputy director in 2019.
He was also motivated to quit by “various embezzlements, with Mr. Rydzyk in the main role” – a reference to Tadeusz Rydzyk, a priest closely allied to the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and whose various businesses and foundations have benefited from generous state grants.
“I cannot be a member of an organisation that, to some extent, shelters criminals,” declared Wiśniewski. In a separate interview with the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, he went even further, describing the church as a “mafia corporation that abuses the sign of the cross”.
Wiśniewski said that his accusations were based on his own personal experience within Caritas, where he has witnessed corruption and greed. He claimed that the charity took “joy from natural disasters and other events that improve the Caritas budget through financial proceeds from fundraising”.
He said that he also observed how the “clergy [live] comfortable lives at the expense of naive believers”, with “priests accumulating wealth contrary to what the Bible, especially the New Testament, teaches”.
That led him to “the realisation that this church is not a path to holiness, but a corporation – at its worst – taking care of its own capital”. He also commented on how the church “hides deviants [i.e. those guilty of sex abuse] within parishes or sends them to other dioceses”.
The Catholic church in Poland has faced a number of controversies in recent years, in particular over revelations of sex abuse by clergy and negligence in dealing with it by bishops. It has also been criticised over its political engagement, especially with regard to the introduction of a near-total ban on abortion.
Recent data from the church itself has shown a significant decline in the proportion of Catholics attending church, while the latest census also found a big drop in the proportion of Poles identifying as Catholics. The church has also confirmed that there has been a growing number of people submitting acts of apostasy.
That trend has been particularly pronounced among young people, only 25% of whom say they now practice religion regularly, down from 70% in the early 1990s.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/09/c...criminals/
Sebastian Wiśniewski has worked for Caritas in Białystok, one of Poland’s largest cities, since 2007 and became its deputy director in 2019.
He was also motivated to quit by “various embezzlements, with Mr. Rydzyk in the main role” – a reference to Tadeusz Rydzyk, a priest closely allied to the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and whose various businesses and foundations have benefited from generous state grants.
“I cannot be a member of an organisation that, to some extent, shelters criminals,” declared Wiśniewski. In a separate interview with the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, he went even further, describing the church as a “mafia corporation that abuses the sign of the cross”.
Wiśniewski said that his accusations were based on his own personal experience within Caritas, where he has witnessed corruption and greed. He claimed that the charity took “joy from natural disasters and other events that improve the Caritas budget through financial proceeds from fundraising”.
He said that he also observed how the “clergy [live] comfortable lives at the expense of naive believers”, with “priests accumulating wealth contrary to what the Bible, especially the New Testament, teaches”.
That led him to “the realisation that this church is not a path to holiness, but a corporation – at its worst – taking care of its own capital”. He also commented on how the church “hides deviants [i.e. those guilty of sex abuse] within parishes or sends them to other dioceses”.
The Catholic church in Poland has faced a number of controversies in recent years, in particular over revelations of sex abuse by clergy and negligence in dealing with it by bishops. It has also been criticised over its political engagement, especially with regard to the introduction of a near-total ban on abortion.
Recent data from the church itself has shown a significant decline in the proportion of Catholics attending church, while the latest census also found a big drop in the proportion of Poles identifying as Catholics. The church has also confirmed that there has been a growing number of people submitting acts of apostasy.
That trend has been particularly pronounced among young people, only 25% of whom say they now practice religion regularly, down from 70% in the early 1990s.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/09/c...criminals/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"