In 2023, following a major television documentary claiming that St. John Paul II had covered up clerical sexual abuse when he was leading the Archdiocese of Kraków, Polish experts rejected the claim and urged that archdiocesan records be opened to allow the full context.
It took a change in Church leadership in Kraków to open the archives — a move announced by Cardinal Grzegorz Rys on Jan. 30, a l...
The article by Krystof Guzik and Marcin Litka raises serious questions about the accuracy of the documentary "Franciszkanska 3" produced by TVN regarding Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II. The authors present new information about a priest named Father Surgent who was accused of sexual abuse, and they question the methods used in the documentary's investigation. This raises concerns about media sensationalism and the potential for harm to individuals involved in these historical in...