The Polish church and the conservative government have both hit out at the book. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WARSAW - John Paul II “knew” about cases of child abuse by Catholic priests in Poland and helped cover them up before becoming pope in 1978, a new book claims.
Some of the documents cited in his new book come from the archives of the Communist-era secret police, with defenders of the pope pilloring the author for using them. “I was the first person who they talked to about what they have been through as children,” Mr Overbeek added, saying survivors were afraid to stand up in public.
“And that means that we know for 100 per cent sure that in 1970 Karol Wojtyla already knew about sex abuse.”
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