Poland should revise its plans for Kaczynski's burial

More than 2,000 people gathered on Wednesday in Poland to protest at the Church authorities' decision to bury the presidential couple in Wawel Cathedral in Krakow. The conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung sympathises with the demonstrators: "Władysław Sikorski, head of the Polish government in exile during the Second World War, was only transferred to the Wawel Cathedral in Krakow in 1993, fifty years after his death. ... Before Sikorski the remains of the founder of the nation and national hero Józef Piłsudski, who died in 1935, came to rest in the Polish nation's pantheon. And even in his case the final decision to transfer his remains to the Wawel was preceded by a two-year dispute about a suitable final resting place for the belligerent (and not very pious) statesman within the Church. So it's no wonder the decision to bury the tragically killed President Kaczyński in the Wawel has sparked (piously subdued) criticism. It wouldn't have occurred to anyone to place him among the kings and spiritual heroes of the past when he was still alive."

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