A former archbishop who resigned amid allegations that he forced
homosexual attentions on trainee priests is to play a key role in a
holy mass in Poznań marking the 1050th anniversary of the baptism of Poland.
Father Juliusz Paetz stepped down after the newspaper Rzeczpospolita
published allegations of sexual abuse in 2002. The newspaper reported
that the then archbishop’s ‘proclivities’ had been known by the
authorities at his seminary for some time, and that former pope John Paul II was ‘shocked’ to hear the revelations.