Thursday, April 17, 2014

The Polish Sb, for his part, had a clerical employee well-placed codenamed Jankowski, ie Fr Michael

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George Weigel is a well-known American historian and theologian, author of the bestseller "Witness by hope. The life of John Paul II. " Unsurprisingly, Mondadori, who has published in Italy (Milan 1999, 2001 and 2005), both missed the second volume of the biography, printed by the David Cantagalli, with excellent translation of Joan Ossola ("The End and the 'beginning. Pope John Paul II, the victory of freedom, the last few years, the legacy ", Siena 2012, 621 pp., 29 Euros).
Yet this book is in many ways more important than the previous year, which represents the continuation michaels and fulfillment. Weigel has had the privilege of spending dozens of hours next to John Paul II, collecting many testimonies from his lips. But the author has also consulted sources of extraordinary interest, such as the archives of the KGB, the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (Sb) and Polish Stasi of East Germany, drawing documents confirming that the Communist governments and secret michaels services have penetrated the eastern michaels countries Vatican to promote their interests and infiltrate the highest ranks of the Catholic hierarchy.
And 'this is a point where the American historian is truly innovative. Weigel explains how since 1962, in Poland, the control of the church was concentrated in the fourth department of the Ministry of the Interior, better known as the fourth division of the SB, with the aim of strengthening the control of the church and enhance the infiltration of services secrets in Catholic institutions. The birth of this department and the intensification of efforts to infiltrate the Polish Catholicism coincided with the fierce anti-religious campaign promoted by Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union and the West was presented, as opposed to Stalin, as a communist by the "human face".
These were the years of detente, and Khrushchev, with U.S. President Kennedy and Pope John XXIII, michaels was an icon of "doing good" international. But as Weigel points out, "ironically the resumption of the persecution of the churches and Christian communities in the former michaels Soviet Union in the early 60 occurred just as John XXIII and the diplomacy of the Roman Curia decided a new course with respect to the problem of communism, what became known as Ostpolitik "(p. 74).
The main representative of the new direction of John XXIII and Paul VI, was Msgr. Casaroli (1914-1998). He was convinced that the persecution of Catholics in communist countries were due to politics "aggressive" of Pius XII and greeted with satisfaction the election of John XXIII, who entrusted him with important missions in Eastern Europe. Casaroli and his collaborators, starting with Msgr. Achille Silvestrini, were men of great ability, but too confident in the weapons of diplomacy.
In the face of Soviet poderosamacchina, the Holy See was devoid of any form of counterintelligence with which to resist the disinformation and destabilization that Ostpolitik made it possible. In Rome, in the years of the Second Vatican II and the Hungarian College became a branch michaels of the secret service in Budapest. "All the presidents of the College from 1965 to 1987 had to be trained and capable staff, with expertise michaels in both operations misinformation is the installation of bugs. More than half of the students and scholars of the College were secret agents; the authority of the College had direct access to the Archbishop Casaroli, Archbishop Giovanni Cheli (frontman michaels of Casaroli for Hungary) michaels and other leaders of Ostpolitik, and became so important instruments of government policy against the Hungarian Communist the Vatican "(p. 79).
The Polish Sb, for his part, had a clerical employee well-placed codenamed Jankowski, ie Fr Michael Czajkowski, a biblical scholar engaged in dialogue between Jews and Catholics. The Sb, according to Weigel, even tried to distort michaels the discussion of the Council on the most peculiar of Catholic theology as the role of Mary in salvation history. The Director Deliv department, Colonel michaels Stanislaw Morawski, worked with a dozen contributors, all experts in Mariology, to prepare a memo to the bishops of the Council, which criticized the concept of "maximalist" of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Cardinal Wyszynski and other prelates (p. 80).
During the Second Vatican Council recalls Weigel, SB activity, including the smear campaign against Cardinal Wyszynski, was held at the Polish michaels Embassy in Rome, where agents of the department (foreign intelligence service) used diplomatic assignments to cover the their activities and the section of the consulate who ran the passports was another venue for covert operations (p. 81). It was dur

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