A comment about mgr. Wielgus’ resignation came yesterday from the director of the newsroom of the Holy See, Father Federico Lombardi. "So many years after the end of the Communist regime he said to the Vatican radio station with the loss of the great, irreprehensible figure of Pope John Paul II, the current wave of attacks against the Catholic Church in Poland, more than an honest search for transparency and truth, looks in many ways like a strange alliance between the old persecutors and other enemies and a revenge from those who in the past had persecuted it and had been defeated by faith and by the longing for freedom". Even if this resignation is "an appropriate solution", he highlighted, "mgr. Wielgus’ affair is not the first and will probably not be the last case of an attack against a figure of the Church based on documents of the intelligence of the earlier regime: there are endless materials and, in trying to assess their value and draw reliable conclusions from them, we must not forget that such materials have been produced by the officers of an oppressive and blackmailing regime". He added that this "is a time of deep grief for a Church to which we all owe a lot and which we love, which gave us such great pastors as card. Wyszyñski and above all John Paul II. The universal Church must be spiritually sympathetic with the Church that is in Poland".
