SIR EUROPA: POLAND, "COMPARATIVELY FEW CASES OF COLLABORATIONIST PRIESTS IN THE COMMUNIST ERA" (2)

Therefore, the Committee thinks "the state of things does not allow us to review with reasonable carefulness the extent, intensity and damages caused by the possible, deliberate collaboration of these people with the Communist security services." As a consequence, the Committee, "in its conclusions about the individuals, only tried to accurately present the current state of the archival documentations". The Committee’s conclusions "provide material to make assumptions about the role of the Catholic Church in its opposition to the planned spreading of atheism among the Polish population" from 1945 to 1989 and "in the strengthening of religious and national values in the population". Such conclusions "include a brief illustration of the basic assumptions of the Marxist ideology about religion (and in Poland this mostly concerned the Catholic Church); a general scenario of the relations between the State and the Church in the People’s Republic of Poland; a description of the repressions of the clergy by the Communist security services, and the attempted disintegration of the Catholic Church by the Communist authorities; a presentation of the results of the review of the Ipn documentation about the members of the Polish episcopacy who are still alive".