KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) The bishops of Poland March 14 announced they will create a commission of experts to investigate cases of abuse of minors by clergy from the past in the country an investigation that would cover the era that St. John Paul II governed the Archdiocese of Krakow as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla.
The Polish hierarchy also defended John Paul II after a television station s report accused the Polish pope of cover up of abuse when he was archbishop of Krakow from 1964 to 197