Polish Archbishop Resigns
WARSAW (Reuters) - The new archbishop of Warsaw on Friday admitted to having worked with communist-era secret services, in a row that has embarrassed the church in Catholic Poland and led to calls for his resignation.
In a statement issued late on Friday, Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, appointed by the Pope on December 6, appeared to back down from earlier denials in the row and to open the door for the pope to remove him from office.
"By the fact of this entanglement I have damaged the church ... I will respect any decision the pope makes," Wielgus said in a statement on the church's Web site that is to be read to churchgoers on Saturday.
"I damaged the church again when in recent days, amid a hot media campaign, I denied the facts of this cooperation."
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