After the first circular of elections, Trzaskowski announced that as the president he would lead to the fast liquidation of the Church Fund. In fact, he shouted with large power as 1 of his most important. another promises by Trzaskovsky mean expenditure from the state budget, which means that no of them will be realised. However, the fact that Trzaskowski, being president, would almost immediately liquidate the Church Fund, should be considered absolutely certain. Let us realize that this would be a powerful blow not only to the Church and priests, but to all Polish Catholics. This would mean that for everyone there would be constant, for many crucial costs.
First of all, you request to know what the Church Fund is. Since we will not find the fact on this subject in any Wikipedias or another more accessible sources, a fewer years ago I wrote an article containing what all Catholic should know. Since the majority of Catholics inactive do not know what is what Rafał Trzaskowski announced the liquidation, I would like to include a large condition of my text detailing what is most crucial about the Church Fund.
First of all, it is crucial to know that the vast majority of statements, articles and encyclopedia slogans on the Church Fund – is an absolute nonsense. And the fact is this. Formally, the PRL government in the same year 1950 created the Church Fund and the Office for Challenges. Each of these names at best was a mocking euphemism, although precisely – a cynical lie. What was called the Fund did not fund anything – it was a propaganda maneuver to cover the fact that all agricultural land was confiscated. They have usually been in the hands of the Church for centuries, and for centuries they have been liable for countless homes of care, hospitals, hospices, schools, kindergartens (then called “guards”), lower and higher seminars, etc. In 1949, the Church ran 87 schools, 260 children's homes, 680 kindergartens, 950 burs, etc. The supervision of the Fund was to be carried out by the Office of d.s. Confessions, whose task was, however, primarily to exercise totalitarian control over everything that the Church constitutes, although in particular, over clergy and remnants of inactive existing Catholic associations and publications. According to communist propaganda, the Church Fund was intended to compensate for the confiscated property in exchange for which the clergy were to be covered by social insurance. However, already in 1953 the Polish People's Republic – the government started an operation aimed at eliminating from the Polish space at least a large part of the Church and the spiritual state. Whether the goal was to scope the standards in the russian Union achieved by closing almost all temples or to halt plundering, terrorizing and complete submission – this can be argued for. It is known that Russian communists in Moscow alone in a fewer months could blow up 7 100 churches, comrades from Czechoslovakia liquidated
All seminars and priests are sentenced by hundreds
and put in prisons and those in Hungary – without any courts, put a full multitude of priests and nuns in concentration camps. In the Polish People's Republic – there was no shortage of PZPR – the sheep who took specified methods, but the barely suppressed post-war anti-communist uprising inhibited the realization of even specified fundamental communist dreams as replacing peasant farms with collective farms. In view of the scale of Polish resistance, the incalculable consequences of the full trial with the Church "our" communists were besides afraid. Nevertheless, they decided to take a large action. It was terrible and it was able to erase it from the memory of most Poles. It started in July 1954 erstwhile armed troops from UB attacked dozens of male spiritual houses in Białystok, Warsaw, Krakow, Łomża and Poznań. In a fewer hours of 1 night, all the monks inhabiting them were transported in trucks to labour camps. Each of the buildings occupied by UB was stripped of equipment and immediately received a fresh destiny. This frequently consisted of adapting apartments for the officers of the panic apparatus. The success of the operation and the paralysing shock of society has encouraged the communists to carry out another, on a larger scale. On the night of 2 to 3 August 1954 an attack on 324 female spiritual houses was carried out. The operation was akin – if the doors of the monastery were not opened, they were immediately broken. The nuns were frequently dragged out of bed to their trucks, allowing only the garment bag to be taken with them. This time, any UB troops encountered unforeseen difficulties. In many towns, terrible noises tearing the silence of the night alarmed the residents of the surrounding houses. There were clashes with the coming sisters to the rescue. People were beaten and arrested, firearms fired. On occasion, UB thugs were amazed by the presence in pacified monasteries of severely sick aged people or children with deep disabilities. Astounding, but the authors of these nightly assault plans did not always take into account the fact that attacked spiritual houses frequently act as hospices or hospitals for demanding intensive care. any of the sisters were qualified nurses and even doctors with uncommon specialties. The Ubecs treated them all equally. no of these women were informed of what they were going to do with them. Embedded into the planned trucks with “Pielgrzymka” signs were sent to fresh destinations, which turned out to be camps assembled at the PGR – the western provinces of Poland. The best luck was that they were closed in erstwhile UB actions of monastery buildings in Gostyń or Kobylina. At least they had windows and furnaces. Most of them, however, went to camps specified as were improvised in Otorów, Stadniks, Dębowa Lące or Pępa. In the latter, nearly a 1000 sisters lived in barracks with no electricity, windows, moving water, or sewage. In each of the barbed-wired camps imprisoned were forced to work in sewing rooms. In the months of field work – were the free labour force of the PGR – these. 1 evidence to this gehenna is the memory of Sister Miriam Zając: “Our Elizabethan in the camp was 4 hundred. Each was urged to depart from the Law, which did not yield to one. In winter, the water was frozen in our barracks, we were sick, 15 of us died.”
The salvation came with the October changes of 1956. Priests and bishops were besides released from prison. The nuns – they frequently had nowhere to go. Most of the monastic buildings confiscated in 1954 were neither returned nor compensated in any way. For this reason any of the sisters in the camps were inactive in the spring of 1957 and imprisoned in Gostyń until the end of 1959. In the first years of the Gomulkowski era, communists softened their anti-Catholic policy. The inability to return most of the plundered buildings argued with fresh functions. To this day many of them have municipal housing. The return of the construction property confiscated in 1954 ended with the early 1960s. 44% of the robbed – remained in the hands of the state. This statistic was not improved by the restitutions made after 1989, e.g. from 89 buildings in 1954 taken from Elizabethans until present only 55 were returned. many moving monuments, including medieval books, sculptures, crucifixes, paintings, have never returned to the Church during the ubec attacks. They most likely shared the destiny of the last 10 boxes with the gold donated by Poles to the National Defence Fund. In 1947, U.B. officials who picked them up on the Okęto were filling their pockets with rings, rings, gold watches. any of this evening have served as a gratification for prostitutes...
The only thing the Church received as a “compensation” for property which it did not recover after the 1954 plunders were benefits from the Church Fund. They consist of medical care for clergymen, provided in the state wellness service and the anticipation to apply for backing for renovations of historical sacral buildings. There is no uncertainty that during all the years of the Fund's operation, he did not even balance the promilator with the propil of the value of what was plundered and never given back to the Church.
Everything that consists of the Kościelny Fund is limited to only 2 groups of costs financed from the Polish state budget. The first group includes wellness insurance. The kind that all insured in ZUS or KRUS, through which they can, like everyone else, go to doctors, buy medicines at the pharmacy with a discount and, if necessary, lie in hospitals, undergo treatments. The second group of costs consists of funds (always very cheap, but nevertheless necessary) which can be applied for in order to renovate historical sacral buildings. The point is that under the care of the Church there is simply a immense part of the national heritage of Polish culture. Most medieval monuments – they are churches. And in them – most of the treasures of old painting and sculpture preserved in Poland. Without essential renovations and constant maintenance, these treasures of Polish culture will turn into ruins. In this case, with the aid of the Church Fund, the Polish state is primarily supporting the protection of the treasures of Polish culture and not the Church itself. Thus, not the Church as an institution or a human congregation is the beneficiary of this part of the Church Fund, but the national heritage of Poland and Poles. All Poles and not only Poles – Catholics.
I think everyone can answer the question of the consequences of the liquidation of the Church Fund. With its liquidation, state aid will end at the art treasure restaurant. And present in Poland, we have quite a few parishes made up of respective thousands of lavish Catholics, on whom we have a work to repair and preserve, for example, a large Baroque temple. Many specified temples require renovations costing respective or respective million zlotys. Without the Church Fund – specified parishioners will be alone with this spending. What about priests, nuns, nuns who will be deprived of the right to treatment in public hospitals and wellness centers? The predecessors of Rafał Trzaskowski had long since taken distant all sources of income from which the treatment of the clergy was financed. If Trzaskowski reaches his point – all this cost, without which he cannot live, will gotta fall on everyone who belongs to the community of Catholics. Without self-burdening each of the Polish Catholics, educational institutions or centres of social assistance will not be able to function. Finally, let us ask ourselves why this inferno with which Trzaskowski announces the liquidation of the Church Fund. He was the boy of a paid informer of the Communist safety Service and as president of Warsaw he employed high-level SB officers, besides Mrs Lange, who murdered Fr Franciszek Blachnicki, the creator of the Oazov Movement, and to the foundation which he transferred millions from the capital city of Warsaw. However, the full yearly spending on the Church Fund is yet only 1 3rd of the funds that Donald Tusk's government allocates to the Polish tv in Elimination. Only the 3rd part of these fewer billions, which inactive a year and a half ago the Tuska and Trzaskowski organization promised to devote to childhood oncology ...
Artur Adamski
More about concentration camps for Polish clergy and plunder of the property of the Church in:
- Artur Adamski “PRL – State of concentration camps” (including “Gazeta Citizenska Kornel Morawiecki”)
- Peter Raina “Feasts of the Sisters in PRL”, Warsaw 2004
- Artur Adamski "Communist plan to liquidate the Church in Poland", Option for Law 2004
