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Poland's Roman Catholic nuns withstood pressure from the communist-era secret police far more robustly than male clergy, new research shows
Christian Century, April 3, 2007
Poland's Roman Catholic nuns withstood pressure from the communist-era secret police far more robustly than male clergy, new research shows. "It's obviously hard to make comparisons," said Jolanta Olech, president of Poland's Conference of Superiors of Female Religious Orders. "But the documentation shows nuns proved much tougher than priests.
We can certainly say that, in this very difficult situation, the sisters passed the test." The nun was speaking as investigations continued into the Polish church's infiltration by the communist-era secret police, following the January 7 resignation of Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus of Warsaw. Olech told ENI news service that the secret police made "determined efforts" to find agents among Poland's 27,000 nuns. She noted, however, that interior ministry files suggested that no more than 30 were recruited nationwide during the 1980s, a hundred times fewer than in the case of Roman Catholic priests.
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