Polish Priests and Laity Reject Bushops’ Statement on Relations with Judaism

Radical Fideiity

May 3, 2026

“Yet another controversy has shaken the Synodal Church, this time in Poland, again exposing the deep divide between the postconciliar Synodal hierarchy and many priests and faithful who still want to follow the perennial teaching of the Church.

The incident also, when viewed in the context of a recent report that we will get to at the end of this article, again highlighted the ridiculousness of the Synodal Church’s false ecumenism.

The Polish bishops’ conference issued a pastoral letter in March to mark the 40th anniversary of John Paul II’s “historic” (read: treasonous) 1986 visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome. That visit, often cited as a milestone in modern Catholic-Jewish relations, was used as the occasion for a strong condemnation of antisemitism and an invitation for Catholics to visit synagogues and meet with local Jewish communities.

The letter repeated two statements that immediately provoked widespread backlash.

First, it declared: “Israel remains the chosen people,” citing the apostate heretic Francis and Evangelii Gaudium.

“Second, it stated: “That the Jews share in God’s salvation is theologically beyond question, but how this can be possible without an explicit confession of Christ is and remains a profound mystery of God,” quoting the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews on the 50th anniversary of the highly heretical and blasphemous Nostra Aetate.

Reports quickly spread that a large number of priests simply refused to read the letter at Mass. Some estimates claimed that the overwhelming majority of clergy ignored it, though exact numbers were never officially verified. Some priests defended themselves by saying the bishops had not formally mandated its public reading, but the refusal itself revealed something much deeper: many clergy did not want to place these claims before their people.

“Professor Dariusz Oko of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow became one of the strongest public critics. Writing in Do Rzeczy, he said Catholics felt “hurt and humiliated” and even “betrayed by their own shepherds.” He argued that the bishops had effectively wounded the faithful by repeating ideas many Catholics believe undermine the uniqueness of Christ and the necessity of the Gospel.

“He was far from alone.”

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