Following the charges made by the Polish media against mgr. Stanis³aw Wielgus, metropolitan archbishop of Warsaw, yesterday the chair of the Polish Bishops Conference, in a release, "draws attention to the public detriment of the person’s reputation". "The situation reads the release is particular unfair for a priest; since the very fact of a conversation between the priest and some communist secret agents cannot be considered evidence of collaboration against moral principles, since such conversation has an official nature or had to be taken for scientific or pastoral reasons with the bishop’s authorisation". Hence his request to respect the decision of the Pope who "showed he trusts the archbishop by appointing him metropolitan archbishop of Warsaw". "In expressing their sympathy with mgr. Wielgus, mgr. Józef Michalik, mgr. Stanis³aw G¹decki and mgr. Piotr Libera, the president, deputy president and secretary general of the Polish Bishops Conference, respectively, entrust "to God his person as well as the service entrusted to him" and remain "confident that this media frenzy will not disturb the religious and homely atmosphere" of the Holy Christmas.
