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	New Bishop for Troubled Polish Diocese? Catholic World News [Poland] March 22, 2007 http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50045 Warsaw (CWNews.com) — The secretary of the Polish bishops' conference, Bishop Piotr Liber, will soon be named to head the troubled Plock diocese, according to a report in the newspaper Rzeczpospolita. Bishop Liber, who is currently serving as an auxiliary in the Katowice diocese, would replaced Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, who led the Plock diocese for 7 years before he was selected by Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) to become the Archbishop of Warsaw. Archbishop Wielgus was forced to resign from that new post in January, prior to his installation, because of charges that he had collaborated with the Communist secret police. Meanwhile the Plock diocese has been shaken by recent charges of sexual abuse at the seminary. In related news, the Zycie Warszawy newspaper is reporting that Archbishop Wielgus will soon be moving out of Warsaw to serve at a parish in Lublin, and resume teaching at the Catholic university there. Rzeczpospolita had reported in February that the former archbishop had received a message from the Vatican asking him to leave Warsaw, to ease the tensions that had surrounded his appointment and sudden resignation.
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