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	Polish Priest's Book Identifies Clerics Who Helped, Resisted Secret Police Catholic World News [Poland] February 27, 2007 http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49527 Warsaw, Feb. 27, 2007 (CWNews.com) — A Polish priest's book on clerical collaboration with the country's Communist regime indicts two active members of the hierarchy, according to reports based on advance copies of the text. The eagerly awaited 588-page book by Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, based on his combing of archives at the Institute for National Remembrance, names Bishops Kazimierz Gorny of Rzeszow and Wiktor Skworc of Tarnow as collaborators. Father Zaleski also charges that Archbishop Juliusz Paetz — who was forced to resign in 2002 after accusations of sexual misconduct — worked with the secret police while he was stationed at the Vatican, in a minor post within the pontifical household. The collaboration evidently ended when Archbishop Paetz returned to Poland, the author says. Early reports on the Zaleski book have indicated that some prominent Polish clerics rebuffed efforts by the secret police to recruit their help. Among those identified in the book as having resisted the Communists are two former Solidarity chaplains, Fathers Kazimierz Jancarz and Adolf Chojnacki, and the current rector of Krakow's Pontifical Theological Academy, Father Jan Maciej Dyduch. The book reports that the secret police unsuccessfully sought to obtain the cooperation of Antoni Dziwisz, the brother of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was then personal secretary to Pope John Paul II (bio - news) and is not Archbishop of Krakow.
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