Archbishop resigns over secret police contacts

Warsaw’s new archbishop has resigned amid a scandal over his cooperation with the communist-era secret police, Poland’s Roman Catholic church said today.

Archbishop resigns over secret police contacts

Warsaw’s new archbishop has resigned amid a scandal over his cooperation with the communist-era secret police, Poland’s Roman Catholic church said today.

Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, who took office on Friday and was to have been installed in a ceremony today, ”has submitted his resignation from the office of archbishop of Warsaw,” Poland’s Episcopate said in a statement released only half an hour before the Mass was to begin.

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