Pope asks Polish cardinal to preside over beatifications in Poland

Published: 2005-06-13

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has moved another step away from beatification ceremonies, asking Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw to preside in Poland over the beatification of three Polish priests. In mid-May Pope Benedict had the prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes celebrate the beatifications of Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai and a Spanish nun, although the pope later met with the pilgrims who had come from Hawaii, New York, Spain and Peru for the ceremony. No plans have been made for the pope to meet the Polish pilgrims who will attend the Warsaw Mass June 19 for the beatification of three priests, including Father Wladyslaw Findysz, the first Pole to be recognized by the Catholic Church as a martyr of communism. The two other priests to be beatified are Father Bronislaw Markiewicz, founder of the priests and the sisters of St. Michael the Archangel, and Father Ignacy Klopotowski, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto.

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