Pious Trash: The REAL Rainbow Plague in Poland
The 2019 Polish documentary on clerical sex abuse, “Tell No One” highlighted a problem: Many of the priestly sex abusers and credibly accused child molesters are well-loved and respected national and local figures. Some people are pushing for a total accounting; others stress individual forgiveness and resumption of public ministry. Notable figures include –
-Father Henryk Janknowski, one of the founders of the Solidarity union. He had his statue removed in Gdansk.
– Father Eugeniusz Makulski, who oversaw the construction of Poland’s biggest basilica. He commissioned a statue of himself offering the building to St. Pope John Paul II. I found his kneeling in front of the pope an apt pose, considering what he is. Makulski’s representations have been removed from the shrine. 
-Father Franciszka Cybula, personal chaplain to anti-Communist hero Lech Walesa. Slawoj Leszek Glodz, Archbishop of Gdansk, lavished praise on Cybula and gave him a grandiose funeral.
– Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, a much-loved figure who helped lead Poland’s anti-Communist movement.
–Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, former archbishop of Krakow and papal envoy. He was quietly recalled from the Dominican Republic in 2013. Wesolowski was accused of possessing child pornography and paying poor boys and teens for sex acts. Luckily, he died of a “heart attack” before his canonical trial was about to begin. Wesolowski was also wanted on sex abuse charges in Poland. It seemed to me he had quite a good clerical showing at his funeral. 
On August 1, 2019, Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Krakow celebrated a Mass commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Archbishop J?draszewski said in his homily: “The red [communist] plague no longer walks on our earth, but a new neo-Marxist one that wants to conquer our souls, hearts, and minds has appeared. It is not a red, but a rainbow plague.”
Did he mean Poland’s pedophile and sex abuser priests, bishops and cardinals; or, was he referring only to Polish LGBT activists?
