Kazimierz nycz biography of albert lea

Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. When Cardinal-designate Kazimierz Nycz was installed as archbishop of Warsaw, Poland, in , he called on Catholics to give evangelical witness in an increasingly secularized world and asked the media to serve the truth and the common good.

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The cardinal-designate, now 60, was named archbishop of Warsaw in March , two months after Pope Benedict XVI's original choice resigned at his own installation Mass amid accusations of having collaborated with Poland's former communist regime. Polish newspapers at the time published quotations from Cardinal-designate Nycz's secret police file saying that he repeatedly had refused to cooperate.

He told Vatican Radio at the time that the biggest task facing the church in Poland was to purify itself of the past in order to devote its energies to preaching the Gospel and helping the poor. The son of a builder, he was born close to the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Krakow in by the future Pope John Paul II.

After completing his doctorate at the Catholic University of Lublin, he began working in the archdiocesan office for religious education. Pope John Paul named him an auxiliary bishop of Krakow in and appointed him bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg in NCR's main story: Wuerl and Burke among 24 new cardinals. He had served as secretary of the clergy congregation since Cardinal-designate Piacenza spent years in a variety of teaching posts, from teaching religion in Italian public high schools to teaching theology, canon law, contemporary culture and the history of atheism at both public and church-run institutes.