Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś — Statements

Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś — Statements

• On the approach to sexual abuse in the Church:
“I spoke to the parents of those who were hurt as a child. Of course it changed me. erstwhile I was in the seminary and erstwhile I began my pastoral career, these things were not mentioned at all. Today, it is not only a problem to talk about a peculiar individual who is known for his name and face.

“Yes, the victims should be compensated. The Church has a work first to meet with specified a person, to ask what it needs and for what resources are essential and then to simply give them.

• On the anonymization of the wrongdoer while revealing the victim in the 2020 statement:
— It was a mistake and I apologized for it. I spoke to this gentleman myself. We're inactive in contact today.

• Politics:
“A church in politics should not be. He has no right to do that.

— As the Council states: “The Church in Christ is simply a sacrament, or sign and instrument of interior union with God and unity of all mankind.” So it is not from introducing social divisions or perpetuating them.
If we ask politicians not to affect us in political warfare, let us not invitation them to preach their views at spiritual ceremonies. There's no place in the Church for that.

— The Church should make not political tools, but evangelical means: the proclamation of the Word, the celebration of sacraments, the building up of community and the work of love. That's what it's based on. If individual alternatively looks at political power to search security, they are profoundly wrong.

“If priests from my diocese begin to preach political content from the pulpit, they will first receive reprimand and then search further consequences. If the priest puts up an election poster, regardless of which party, I will call you the same day. It is clear to me: there is no agreement to affect the Church in the election campaign. There isn't!

— The organization that wins the election — whatever — will most likely announce in the evening that it intends to regulation all Poles. However, this cannot be done if half of the population has been systematically offended over the past months. Unfortunately, this applies to all parties to the dispute.

• Ecumenism:
“We are the majority church, and that means that we are the most liable for ecumenism. That's the first part of the answer. And the another is that ecumenism is an crucial part of orthodoxy. erstwhile we read the pope’s next documents, there is no uncertainty about it. Ecumenism is not optional — it is part of both orthodoxy and orthopraxia. Vatican papers are talking about it.

Jesus did not want a divided Church, as he says in the advanced priestly prayer of John chapter 17. It is not adequate to read it erstwhile a year during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. It's either that or not. This prayer besides includes the fact that the planet will not believe the Church, which remains divided.