End of lustration a further reason for turning away from the Church

The Catholic Church in Poland recently completed its so-called lustration (illumination) during which all priests were investigated for possible collaboration with the communist-era secret police. The commentator Piotr Zaremba thinks this was a bad move, because it has undermined trust in the Church. "Did the prelate Henryk Jankowski work as a secret information source for the communist state security? It looks very much as if he did. Of course, for those who oppose examining the material from that time he is simply a victim of the IPN [Institute of National Remebrance]. But even if they turn a blind eye ... , reality will not cease to exist. It will still be there. I'm not saying that the masses will leave the Church for this reason - there are other grounds for the trend towards secularity. But I do believe that the Church has provided us with a further reason for not placing complete trust in it, and that is sad."

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