Profeto or profanum?
The Ministry of Justice announced that payments from the Justice Fund were suspended on 27 December following an audit. Auditors are tasked with checking that the funds allocated have been transferred in accordance with the rules. The hotel stresses that the fund should only finance precise state tasks.
The funds from the Ministry of Justice were generously sent to the Tadeusz Rydzyk Foundation, but this is only 1 of the destinations. Additionally, the Profeto Foundation was awarded to Fr Michał Olszewski, who received PLN 98 million from Zbigniew Ziobra for the construction of a centre for victims of force in Warsaw from 2022 to 2025.
Profeto is besides known as the Sercan Secretariat for fresh Evangelization. The Foundation received almost PLN 22 million in 2022, while PLN 31 million in 2023. Future plans assumed that in the years 2024 and 2025 the foundation would receive a full of about PLN 33 million. In addition, almost 11 million zlotys from 2021 are added.
This is defended by the PiS: “Not 43 million, but over 98 million zlotys were to be given to the Profeto Foundation, which was to build a centre for victims of violence. Its boss is... a erstwhile exorcist who has become celebrated for driving out demons utilizing a salceson” https://t.co/CqkrFeBya7
— Bertold Kittel (@Bertold_K) January 17, 2024
Knowledge and Media Empire
Five recording studios were planned in the Profeto building, 3 directors for postproduction, server rooms, offices and a performance room. Despite the refusal to let construction from the territory of Wilanów, the Warsaw voivode Konstanty Radziwiłł decided to repeal this decision and to issue approval to start works.
According to the information provided by TVN24, priest Michał Olszewski liable for the task is simply a friend of the erstwhile head of the Justice Ministry. His brother, Grzegorz Olszewski, serves as the president of Alior Bank, which is part of the sovereign sphere of influence of Poland.
Are you saying that priest benevolent Michał Olszewski received 100 million from your erstwhile Minister Ziobro? And Grzegorz Olszewski, his brother, is on the board dependent on PZU Alior Bank? And before that, he was on the board of Pekao, dependent on Zbigniew Ziobro and his brother Witold, now Witold... pic.twitter.com/k1IHM1xZyg
— Łukasz Maziewski (@jodinaa) January 17, 2024
Profeto Foundation is presently active in the construction of a centre for the victims of crime in Warsaw Wilanów. The final grant, alternatively of initially planned PLN 43 million, will amount to PLN 98.9 million. TVN24 notes that the Foundation and the Ministry have not publically informed about the increase in this subsidy. The changes to the payout rules were introduced by an annex to the paper of 24 October 2023, which is only 9 days after the parliamentary elections. Currently, details of this paper are not yet available.
Exorcism salceson
Fr Michał Olszewski made himself known as an exorcist who described the arkana of his profession in his work Be Like Job. We can read the communicative of how the priest participated in expelling the demon of vegetarianism. In order not to be accused of mistaking facts, I will simply place the first fragment of the book for the general assessment of the reader:
I ask, “Who are you?” and they say they are demons of vegetarianism. I ordered them to leave, and they said they wouldn't leave. I ask, “What are the obstacles to getting out?” to which they say, “You will not feed her meat.” We've got 20 pigs in the novitiate where I work, and all now and then we beat a pig for each another and there was a freshly made sausage. So I say to the priest who prayed with me: “We have any of your own sausage, bring and have these spirits.” The spirits started shouting, "No, don't bring sausage," and they say to the priest, "Be a man, don't go get that sausage." Then it occurred to me that there is something better than sausage, and I say, “Salceson bring”. He brought this salceson.
I held the figure of Our woman of Guadalupe and said, “Under the orders of Our woman you must eat this salceson.” They started eating, they yet said, "We can't stand it," and they left. This is what they teach us in the seminary not to cast out evil spirits with salceson, but practice shows that opposites must be fought.”
An unfair contest?
However, it is worth mentioning Olszewski's message to Gazeta Wyborcza. The priest there explains how he perceives the future improvement of his media. It states:
Father Rydzyk's media has managed any of the recipients. We with the Gospel want to scope the younger ones. We're just getting started.
Olszewski besides mentioned that the place that is being created is intended to supply therapeutic asylum for victims of violence. Although the goal seems to be good, there are many objections to the way the victims are working. Olszewski explained that therapy will let them to evidence records, among another things, which will be an component of innovative therapy.
Earlier, among another things, the OKO.press reported that the Justice Fund was intended to support and make an organization aid strategy for victims between 2020 and 2024. The winners of the competition were to make a Network to aid Persons with Harmful Crime – Specialist Support Centers.
Organizations whose projects were not selected in the competition, including the Foundation We Give Children the Force, complained about unclear rules of the competition. They requested ready-made premises for victims and had a qualified staff, while the Profet Foundation did not have a building at the time or even a licence to build it.
The Foundation We Give Children the Force in 2020 noted that "There is no information on the activities of this organization [the Profeto Foundation – ed.] for victims of crime".
