Poland complains to Vatican about ‘anti-German’ comments by bishops
The Polish government has complained to the Vatican anti-German statements made by Catholic bishops in Poland.
The context is border control between neighboring countries.
Conservative circles in Poland fear that Germany illegally deports refugees to its eastern neighbor. The dispute prompted the bishop of Wieslaw Mering, in Wieslaw Mering, to warn against irregular migration in a sermon, according to the PAP news agency.
The bishop said in front of a group of pilgrims on the Catholic nationalist radio station Maryja in Czestochowa that the borders of Poland were threatened from the West and the East.
Still on the pilgrimage site, Bishop Antoni Dlugosz called for prayers for activists involved in volunteer border patrols. These right-wing vigilance groups are looking for migrants on the border on their own initiative and say they want to monitor the work of official border guards.
In a letter of protest to the Vatican, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs qualified the declarations of the hurtful and unacceptable bishops. The letter claims that the comments of the bishops “undermine the good German-Polish relations, slander [Polish] government and represents clear support for nationalist circles. “”
The letter was given to the chief of the Vatican protocol, Javier Domingo Fernández González on Tuesday, according to PAP.
In this document, the ministry required consequences against the two bishops. There has been no response from the Holy See so far.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski had already responded to innuendo that the government he is a member is too sympathetic for Germany.
