POLISH PRIESTS SENTENCED
CHARGES OF AIDING BANDITS _ . . WARSAW, February 28. A military court sentenced two Roman Catholic priests. Kazimierz Fertak and Viktor Lubinski. to 15 and four years’ imprisonment respectively. Three members of an anti-Communist bandit organisation, who were alleged to have carried on an underground war against the Communists, were sentenced to death. The two priests were alleged to have encouraged the bandits and given them Absolution before raids. A Government spokesman to-day ridiculed a report that 400 Roman Catholic priests had been imprisoned in the last two years. A Church spokesman said: “We know there are about 350 priests lying in Polish prisons and laO of these have been Imprisoned in the last year.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25742, 2 March 1949, Page 5
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