Polish Catholic Church leader under fire over bogus award

The leader of Poland’s Catholic Church, who has come under a wave of condemnation by appearing to suggest that children are partly to blame for being sexually abused by priests, is under new fire for falsely claiming he had been given a prestigious award from Cambridge University.

Archbishop Jozef Michalik, head of Poland’s influential Episcopate, claimed he had been granted a “Man of the Year” award by Cambridge University

His own website made the claim he won “Man of the Year — 1998-1999” from the International Biographic Centre at Cambridge University. However, a respected Catholic paper investigated and found he had been awarded the International Biographic Centre award, but it had no association with Cambridge University.