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WARSAW (Reuters) - A satirical weekly featuring an image of late Pope John Paul II holding a baby doll on a cross was withdrawn from sale in post offices and state-controlled petrol stations in Poland on Tuesday, amid a fierce debate over his handling of child abuse cases. Accusations in a new book and television documentary that the first Polish pope knowingly covered up clerical paedophilia scandals when he was archbishop of Krakow have stoked division and outrage in one of Europe s most devoutly Roman Catholic nations. While many people have said the allegations should lead to a reassessment of John Paul s legacy, religious conservatives condemn what they see as a left-wing plot to discredit a figure who is at the core of the nation s identity. He was pope from 1978 until his death in 2005. The image featured on the cover of the satirical and strongly anticlerical Nie (No) weekly, which was founded by Jerzy Urban, spokesman for the Communist governments of Poland in the 1980s and ca
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