The whole action would be more suitable for the post-communist left or a contemporary left party than for Szymon Hołownia’s party, which is considered centrist. Because before Father Olszewski was released from custody, as many as 19 ministries received a strange inquiry from 11 MPs from the Poland 2050 party, who want information about clergy working in the institutions of the Polish state.
The questions are:
1. How many clergy are currently employed in institutions and companies under the ministry? Provide the detailed number of clergy divided among individual institutions and companies.
2. What is the amount of remuneration paid in the past five years to clerics working in institutions and companies subordinate to the ministry? Please provide information per year.
3. What tasks and duties do clergy perform in institutions and companies subordinate to the ministry? Provide a detailed description of the positions, the scope of their duties and the amount of remuneration for the position.
4. How much financial resources has the ministry or its subordinate institutions and companies donated for religious purposes in the past five years? State the amounts broken down by year and the purpose of the transfer. Please provide the above information in detail, taking into account individual institutions and companies within the ministry’s structure.
Why do politicians track down priests who work for the Polish state?
Strange translations by Polish 2050 MPs
Telewizja wPolce24 first asked Polish 2050 MP Barbara Okuła about this.
This is information for us, for parliamentarians, we are on the separation of church and state team and we want to have such information for our own needs to know what the extent is and whether there is abuse.
However, another signatory of the study, MP Adam Luboński, claims otherwise:
For general knowledge, we generally want to know how many clergy are employed in which institutions. Citizens and parliamentarians have the right to know this, and this is not against the general rules, right?
MP Kamil Wnuk, who signed the question, did not know why the team needed this knowledge.
I’m not directly involved with it
– he noted.
So hundreds of institutions dealing with culture, history, sports and tourism draw up lists of priests who work for the Polish state as historians, teachers or military chaplains.
Lawyer Krzysztof Wąsowski, defender of priest Michał Olszewski, in an interview with Telewizja wPolsce24 did not believe that such a record was created. However, he emphasized that nowadays the cassock is a reason to show off some of the government’s actions:
Looking at this case today, it seems to me that the fact that Father Michał is a priest of the Sacred Heart had an impact on the ostentatiousness of this arrest.
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Source: wPolityce
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