Warsaw, Poland — The Vatican said Monday that two Polish bishops accused of covering up sexual abuses will be ordered to pay into a victims’ fund and barred from celebrating mass in public.
The Holy See’s embassy to Poland also said that Edward Janiak, the former bishop of Kalisz, and Slawoj Leszek Glodz, the former archbishop of Gdansk, would have to leave their former dioceses.
The two had already resigned from their official duties after a series of revelations in recent months that have rocked the Catholic Church in Poland, where it remains highly influential.
The statement from the Apostolic Nunciature, the official name for the embassy, said Janiak and Glodz were being p…
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