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...that as a directive to tap into the Russian oil that is being pumped to Poland and Germany through Belarus. Transneft, Russia's state-owned transporting company, said today that Belarus started siphoning off Russia's oil on Jan. 6 - diverting 79,000 tons in two days. Early Monday, Polish officials said that Belarus blocked the Russian Druzhba ("Friendship") oil pipeline that carries oil to Poland and Germany. Russia then closed the pipeline to prevent more Belarussian theft. "Now there is a threat to the fulfillment of international contracts between Russian companies and companies in Western Europe and Eastern Europe...
...Vatican watched the mounting Wielgus controversy over the past week and finally decided that it would be better to have the prelate go now rather than wait until after he was made Archbishop. Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said the Pope had accepted the resignation because the Polish bishop's previous "behavior... had seriously compromised his authority." The result is a clear embarrassment for Pope Benedict XVI, who personally selected Wielgus for the post. Lombardi sought to spread the blame. He cited a "strange alliance" between former Communist authorities and their then adveraries who, he claims, are working...
...service, held in Warsaw's medieval St John's Cathedral, in the heart of the old town, did not turn out as expected. It was intended to mark the elevation of Stanislaw Wielgus, 67, to the post of Archbishop of Warsaw, the most important post in the Polish Catholic Church. Instead, the archbishop began his service by reading from a letter he had just completed to the Vatican: "After profound reflection and assessment of my personal situation, I submit to the hands of Your Holiness my resignation from the office of Warsaw Metropolitan Archbishop," he read. Wielgus's resignation, which...
...Catholic Church holds a particularly influential position in Polish society, and rumors about priests collaborating with the old regime, though common, have never been substantiated. In 1990 a large number of files held by the communist interior ministry on the Polish clergy mysteriously vanished. A former communist official later said they were handed over to the Church. More recently, a priest in Krakow named Tadeusz Isakowicz Zaleski, who was working on a book about priests in the Krakow diocese who cooperated with communist secret police, was ordered to be silent by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the former personal secretary of Pope...
...Poland is among ultra-right parties staunchly opposed to communism. The newspapers that leaked the stories about Wielgus's collaboration, such as the weekly Gazeta Polska, are all on the far right of the political spectrum. Wielgus's case may lead to fresh accusations against other members of the Polish church. The Vatican has hinted that new revelations may be coming and a new book about collaborating priests is due out in Poland in March...