POLAND
U.S. Catholic
By Catholic News Service
WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — A prominent victim of clerical sex abuse has rejected the Polish church’s stance that it is following a zero-tolerance policy toward priests and offers moral support for victims.
Ewa Orlowska, whose book about her ordeal, “I Accused a Priest,” was published in 2008, charged that the church is holding “victims up to ridicule” while “behaving as if nothing has happened.”
“No one in the church has made the slightest gesture. No one has expressed regret, visited or written to me. But now the bishops’ conference head talks about surrounding victims of pedophilia with help and moral compensation,” Orlowska said after the Polish bishops adopted guidelines — in line with May 2011 Vatican instructions — for handling accusations.
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