Midas: I absolutely love it how some of the Polish completely hate the Jewish who were kicked out of Poland without as much as a bucket to **** in and are bold enough to try to reclaim lost property in Polish courts, throwing around arguments like "You're robbing our state" etc. while at the same time saying nothing about the Catholic church that didn't even have to go to court most of the time to get millions and millions of dollars in restitution ( the infamous "Komisja Majatkowa" - more here: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komisja_maj%C4%85tkowa - which cheated numerous Polish out of their property and handed it over to the Catholic church, which, surprise, surprise, promptly sold said property for mucho dinero ).
This makes me laugh too - it's going to be one hell of a scandal in future when the true extent of the corruption becomes clear.
I always reference the Poznan situation, where the RCC has more or less forced a public high school to leave their building due to imposing ridiculously large rents upon the city after getting the building returned to them. The greed is just staggering.
sobieski: Here half the episcopate supports the Smolenkists.
That's exactly the problem - that the RCC was so wrapped up in politics for years (even during the II RP) that they find it impossible to let go now.
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