April 02, 2023 13:52
The statue was daubed with yellow and red paint and the inscription Maxima Culpa.
vandalism and Lodz, in Poland on the other hand Pope John Paul II Last night, on the anniversary of his death, some unknown persons desecrated the monument dedicated to him with red and yellow paint: the statue of Wojtyla stands in front of the local cathedral. “Maxima Culpa” was written on the base; The reference is to the title of a book recently written by Dutch journalist Ekke Overbeek, which accuses the Pope of covering up the abuse of minors in his diocese when he was Cardinal of Kraków.
A prayer for the guilty “I arrived in front of the monument at seven o’clock this morning. I stood there for the first quarter of an hour, not knowing what to do. Then I felt the question within me: What would John Paul II have done? The answer is obvious. John Paul II would have prayed for the guilty,” said Archbishop of Lodz Mgr. Grzegorz Ryś.
“despicable act” Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau visited the sculpture in the morning and called the incident a “despicable act”. Thousands of people then took part in demonstrations in Warsaw and other cities in Poland in defense of the late Pope John Paul II. On the 18th anniversary of his death, vigils and masses were celebrated to commemorate him.
18 years ago the death of Wojtyla On April 2, 2005, John Paul II died after one of the longest pontificates in history. There are several celebrations in the Vatican these days at the tomb of the Polish Pope in St. Peter’s Basilica. Polish Ambassador to the Holy See Adam Kwiatkowski then laid a bouquet of flowers in honor of the entire government of John Paul II’s homeland.
The memory of Prime Minister Meloni “18 years after the death of Pope John Paul II, whom I had the privilege of meeting and knowing, I want to recall the figure of this great man with a very strong spiritual power, who taught us so much and gave so much nation and the whole world”, stressed Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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