” “”Those who accuse the Church are wrong when they consider the hierarchy only, because the Church of Christ is all the devotees as well”: it was said yesterday by Asztrik Várszegi, Benedictine Abbot of Pannonhalma (Hungary) and historian of the Church, on the Hungarian program of the Vatican Radio Station, about the priests who collaborated with the communist regimes. “For religious leaders added abbot Várszegi it was extremely difficult to serve the true purposes of the Church, because their circles were full of schemers. We are proud of our saints and heroes who have suffered in silence and we ask for forgiveness for those who have been blackmailed into collaborating with the system”. Várszegi recalled that "there is a new generation now, with a clean historical conscience, that wants to disclose the past". The abbot, in an interview on the latest issue of “Inside The Vatican”, after mgr. Wielgus’ case, defines that of Poland as a "Church of martyrs, not collaborators" and adds that "the true problem is not finding the culprits, but understanding what really happened. Communism made human souls sick. The Eastern European societies still suffer from such disease. Our historical task is to understand the past to live a worthier future”. ” “
