The protest follows controversial remarks by two senior clerics. Bishop Wiesław Mering, speaking at Jasna Góra - the country’s most important Catholic shrine and pilgrimage site - claimed that Poland is governed by “Germans” and “political gangsters.”
Meanwhile, Bishop Antoni Długosz publicly voiced support for the Border Defense Movement, a nationalist group founded by far-right activist Robert Bąkiewicz to oppose illegal migration.
The foreign ministry called the bishops’ comments “disgraceful and unworthy,” arguing that they violate the Concordat by interfering in domestic affairs. It also warned that Bishop Mering’s remarks could harm Polish-German relations and defame the government.
Bishop Mering repeated his comments during Sunday’s homily at Jasna Góra, prompting a direct response from Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.
FM Sikorski responds to controversial comments by Polish bishop
The head of Polish diplomacy addressed the controversy surrounding the bishop’s appearance at an event linked to far-right circles close to Radio Maryja - a Polish media outlet repeatedly condemned by the Vatican.
“I would politely inform Bishop Mering that my family connection to Germans is that my grandmother’s brother, Canon Roman Zientarski, spent five years imprisoned in Dachau, bunk to bunk with Blessed Michał Kozal, your predecessor,” Sikorski said.
“As for inciting hostility toward refugees in the name of a church whose founder was himself a refugee, I consider that intellectually inconsistent,” he added.
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Source: MSZ/IAR/X/@sikorskiradek