Another Polish bishop named as collaborator
Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance has identified Bishop Wieslaw Mering of Wloclawek as a former Communist collaborator, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper reports.
The Institute of National Remembrance, which has pored over the archives of the Communist regime, say that Mering, who used the pseudonym “Lucjan,” was an informer while pursuing graduate studies in France in the late 1970s. Questions about collaboration between clerics and the secret police of the old Polish regime have troubled the Catholic Church for the past two years. The names of many bishops and priests were listed by the secret police as sources of information. But the written records do not usually indicate the extent of their collaboration.
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The Institute of National Remembrance, which has pored over the archives of the Communist regime, say that Mering, who used the pseudonym “Lucjan,” was an informer while pursuing graduate studies in France in the late 1970s. Questions about collaboration between clerics and the secret police of the old Polish regime have troubled the Catholic Church for the past two years. The names of many bishops and priests were listed by the secret police as sources of information. But the written records do not usually indicate the extent of their collaboration.