{"id":69549,"date":"2024-07-05T16:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/appello-del-presidente-della-conferenza-dei-superiori-maggiori-degli-ordini-maschili-in-polonia\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:30:48","slug":"appello-del-presidente-della-conferenza-dei-superiori-maggiori-degli-ordini-maschili-in-polonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/appello-del-presidente-della-conferenza-dei-superiori-maggiori-degli-ordini-maschili-in-polonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal from the President of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men\u2019s Orders in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Conference of Major Superiors of Men\u2019s Religious Institutes in Poland (KWPZM) also includes the Ministers Provincial of the three Conventual Franciscan Provinces in Poland among its members. The Conference fosters development and collaboration between men\u2019s religious congregations and strengthens the bond between all institutes of consecrated life. In addition, it promotes awareness of religious service in society. Recently, the World War II Museum in Gda\u0144sk removed some objects from its exhibition which commemorated certain national heroes, including St. Maximilian M. KOLBE. In response, on July 2, 2024, the President of the Conference issued a statement calling for the restoration of these objects which represent illustrious Polish figures whose commemoration is well-deserved. He called for the highest state honors to be awarded to them. Below is the full text of his appeal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is with embarrassment and real surprise that we heard about the sequence of events leading to the removal of the objects commemorating St. Maximilian Maria KOLBE, the Blessed ULMA family and Cavalry Captain Witold PILECKI from the permanent exhibition of the Museum of the Second World War in Gda\u0144sk.
\nThe interview that Professor Pawe\u0142 MACHCEWICZ, former Director of the Museum, gave to the \u201cGazeta Wyborcza\u201d [The Electoral Gazette] was particularly surprising and embarrassing. In it, he defined St. Father KOLBE as a \u201cfervent anti-Semite\u201d who allegedly wrote \u201cextremely poisonous anti-Semitic texts\u201d, and stated that having the ULMA family in the exhibit \u201cfalsifies the historical reality\u201d of World War II.
\nDespite the current Director of the Museum announcing that St. Maximilian and the Blessed ULMA family would be restored to the exhibition, an avalanche of texts accusing St. Maximilian of anti-semitism and defaming his good name appeared on the Internet. The decisions of the WWII Museum\u2019s leadership, which were inconsistent and unobjective, provoked a situation which painfully affected the Catholic community. It also violated the sense of national community to a degree that exceeded the actions of the Communist authorities, who, after all, respected St. Maximilian\u2019s heroic act in Auschwitz by awarding him the Golden Cross of the Order Virtuti militari<\/em> in 1972.
\nRecent events and comments (including statements by the museum\u2019s leadership) seem to impose a very dangerous direction on the social discourse in Poland, suggesting that being Catholic and being guided by evangelical values \u200b\u200b constitutes a reason for exclusion from the collective memory of the nation and is some sort of shameful vice that no longer suits contemporary people.
\nIt is our profound conviction that the institutional endorsement of such thinking by those in power is a threat to the historical and cultural sources of our society\u2019s identity and future.
\nIn this context, we appeal to the President of the Republic of Poland to award the highest state honor, the Order of the White Eagle, to these heroes of the Second World War: Father Maximilian KOLBE and the ULMA family. We also ask all people of good will to support our appeal to the President of the Republic of Poland.<\/p>\n

Father Dariusz WILK, KWPZM President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Conference of Major Superiors of Men\u2019s Religious Institutes in Poland (KWPZM) also includes the Ministers Provincial of the three Conventual Franciscan Provinces in Poland among its members. The Conference fosters development and collaboration between men\u2019s religious congregations and strengthens the bond between all institutes of consecrated life. In addition, it promotes awareness of religious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,148],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-69549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}