POLAND
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A progressive priest who apparently said that the older generation of Polish bishops needs ‘to die out’ has been given a ‘final chance’ by his superiors.
Father Wojciech Lemanski was banned from leading occasional masses at his former parish of Jasienica, near Warsaw, following controversial remarks made at the Prystanek Woodstock rock festival.
However, head of the Warsaw-Praga diocese Archbishop Henryk Hoser has told Catholic weekly Gosc Niedzielny that he hopes that Father Lemanski will uphold “the unity” of the Church.
“This is the last attempt and the last chance,” Hoser said. “My decisions are designed to save his priesthood,” the archbishop argued.
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