KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) The fact that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla the future Pope John Paul II knew about abuse when he was an archbishop of Krakow, Poland, is neither new nor surprising, experts say.
What remains to be answered is what he knew, from whom he knew it, and how much of the cardinal’s decisions regarding abusive priests were influenced by the anti-church actions of the communist Security Service (SB), which often falsely accused good priests of immoral behavior only to disc
The late Polish pope John Paul II knew about child abuse in Poland's Catholic church years before becoming pontiff and helped cover it up, private broadcaster TVN reported Sunday.