Taduesz Rydzyk
Poland's Controversial Priest Subjected to Provocation And Polish Media Manipulation - Report
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Warsaw, Poland 23 July 2007 The Redemptionist Order of the Polish Catholic Church issued a report on its investigation of the tapes of Poland's controversial Priest Taduesz Rydzyk and concluded that because he says that he is not anti-semetic he is not and that he has been the subject of medial provocation and manipulation by forces not interested in finding the truth.
Rydzyk became the center of a controversy when the Polish weekly Wprost published some tapes of lectures recorded by students in which Rydzyk, among other things, described Jews as greedy and criticized President Lech Kaczynski for donating land in Warsaw for a Jewish museum .
The Public Prosecutor verified that the tapes were authentic and what was on the tapes was corroborated by people who had been at the lectures.
With criticism from all over the world, demands for apologies and action, the country has been waiting for information from the Church.
Today, in the newspaper, Nasz Dziennik, which is controlled by Rydzyk's media group, Father Zdzislaw Klafka who is Poland's representative to the Rome based Redemptionist Order to which Rydzyk belongs, came to Rydzyk's support.
In that newspaper, Rydzyk denied being ant-semetic and said that he "didn't intend to offend anyone. He continued, to say "I stress that I never speak against people, especially because of their religious affiliation, race, society. Moreover one cannot say that the actions of Radio Maryja, mine included, were or are anti-Semitic."
Klafka dismissed the accusations of ant-semitism made against Rydzyk. "The Rev. Rydzyk does not identify himself with the anti-Semitism attributed to him, and as fellow clergymen who know him, we know that this is an attitude foreign to him."
In spite of the Public Prosecutor having determined that the tapes were authentic, Klafka questioned their authenticity. He is interested in finding the truth and the tapes authenticated by the Public Prosecutor may not be the truth.
He opined that the date of publication and the tapes themselves indicate serious media manipulation and are a provocation.
According to Klafka, with the order's chief in Rome, Superior General Joseph W. Tobin, agrees with him.
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