Poland’s Catholics are leaving the Church as line with state blurs
Dissidents say the institution has too much influence in politics
03 February 2021 - 16:01
Warsaw — Katarzyna Lipka is no longer Catholic, and she says that is a political statement.
Like most Poles, the 35-year-old has marked life’s milestones in the Church, a beacon of freedom in Communist times. Also like many, she’d been drifting away. In November, after the country’s courts decreed a clampdown on abortion that the bishops had lobbied for, she filed papers to cut loose...
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