The VaticanNews portal reports on the 60th anniversary commemorations of the 1965 exchange between Polish and German bishops, framing it as a model of Christian reconciliation. Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC (Polish Bishops’ Conference) and Bishop Georg Bätzing (German Bishops’ Conference) issued a joint declaration praising this “unprecedented act of reconciliation” that allegedly transcended Cold War politics through mutual forgiveness. The article highlights:
“We forgive and ask for forgiveness”
as the “sincere and hope-filled appeal” guiding future Polish-German relations, while emphasizing European unity, support for Ukraine, and the work of the Maximilian Kolbe Foundation. This celebration exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of Catholic soteriology with naturalistic humanism.
Naturalistic Substitution of Supernaturally Ordered Justice
The entire “reconciliation” narrative deliberately omits the sine qua non conditions for true Christian forgiveness: public repentance and adequate reparation for injustice. Pius XI’s encyclical Divini Redemptoris (1937) explicitly taught that “charity cannot take the place of justice unfairly withheld,” yet these “bishops” invert the proper order by declaring:
“What matters is not primarily being right, but understanding our neighbor”
This modernist distortion directly contradicts the Church’s perennial teaching on the ordo justitiae. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1323) mandated that offenses against God and Church require proportionate satisfaction. By reducing the German genocide against Poland (6 million dead, including 3 million Jews) to mere interpersonal misunderstanding requiring mutual forgiveness, these conciliar officials commit sacrilege against justice.
Ecclesiological Heresy: Erasure of the Church’s Supernatural Mission
Archbishop Wojda’s claim that
“the Church of both nations dared to speak the language of the Gospel, not of politics”
constitutes theological fraud. The authentic Catholic position was articulated by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “Kings and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ… He must reign in their minds and wills, which should be governed by the precepts and love of Christ”. The 1965 letters deliberately avoided demanding Germany’s conversion from Protestantism and secularism – the true source of Nazi barbarity – thereby betraying the Church’s raison d’être.
The claim that this correspondence occurred “in the context of Vatican II” reveals its poisonous root. Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the modernist error that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to its immutable views” (Prop 63). These conciliar officials prove this condemnation prophetic by abandoning the regnum sociale Christi for ecumenist hand-holding.
Syncretist Cult of Man Disguised as “European Unity”
Bätzing’s praise for building “a Europe that is to be for all of us a guarantor of security and peace, freedom and social justice” constitutes blasphemous displacement of Christ the King with Enlightenment ideals. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Prop 80).
The article’s emphasis on Polish-German cooperation regarding Ukraine continues this apostasy. True Catholic action would demand Russia and Ukraine’s submission to Christ’s social reign, not geopolitical maneuvering. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864) anathematized those who claim “the best condition of civil society demands that human society be conducted without any regard whatever to religion” – precisely the secular European project these “bishops” champion.
Maximilian Kolbe Foundation: Masonic “Sanctity”
The joint declaration’s promotion of the Maximilian Kolbe Foundation exposes the operation’s diabolical inversion. Kolbe’s invalid “canonization” by antipope John Paul II constitutes sacrilege, as martyrs must die in odium fidei (CIC 1917, Canon 2100) – not humanitarian heroism. The article compounds this by praising
“practical solidarity with the victims of aggression”
while omitting all reference to their eternal salvation through conversion to the true Faith – the sole mission Christ entrusted to His Church (Matthew 28:19-20).
Omission of Divine Judgment: The Silent Heresy
Nowhere do these conciliar officials mention the Four Last Things – Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell – the essential framework for authentic Catholic reconciliation. This calculated silence reveals their adherence to modernist dogma condemned in Lamentabili Sane (Prop 22): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but interpretations of religious facts”.
By reducing the supernatural virtue of charity to therapeutic conflict resolution, Wojda and Bätzing fulfill Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernists substitute for the divine reality a reality purely human and natural”. Their declaration constitutes not Christian reconciliation, but apostate surrender to the anti-Christ’s temporal dominion.
Source:
Polish, German bishops recall 60th anniversary of post-World War II reconciliation (vaticannews.va)
Date: 19.11.2025